Dialogue

 1 Intro|             impossible. It has been said that Plato would have written
 2 Intro|          moments: he would not have said with Heracleitus, ‘All things
 3 Intro|             while the Megarians are said to have been Nominalists,
 4 Intro|           probably the same who are said in the Tenth Book of the
 5 Intro|          but not greater than if he said that he knew all things,
 6 Intro|       modern language they might be said to come first in the order
 7 Intro|            reported himself to have said of his own pupils: ‘There
 8 Intro|           Being. He would have been said by his opponents to have
 9 Intro|            that there is much to be said on both sides of a question.
10 Intro| mythological fancy, but when Thales said ‘All is water’ a new era
11 Intro|           pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, “
12 Intro|             words they may be truly said to be the most inflated
13 Intro|            hand.~Hegelianism may be said to be a transcendental defence
14 Intro|          like. Yet it can hardly be said to have considered the forms
15 Intro|           though he can be scarcely said to have mixed much in the
16 Intro|       abstract. There is much to be said for his faith or conviction,
17 Intro|            philosophy may be almost said to have been discovered
18  Soph|      especially after what you have said. For I certainly cannot
19  Soph|         there is nothing more to be said. Well then, I am to argue
20  Soph|             did not exist before is said to be a producer, and that
21  Soph|           brought into existence is said to be produced.~THEAETETUS:
22  Soph|            implied in what has been said.~STRANGER: And may not conquest
23  Soph|         animal hunting may be truly said to have two divisions, land-animal
24  Soph|            persuasion, there may be said to be two kinds?~THEAETETUS:
25  Soph|          not instruction be rightly said to be the remedy?~THEAETETUS:
26  Soph|      THEAETETUS: At any rate, he is said to do so.~STRANGER: And
27  Soph|           be a husbandman;— for you said that he is a maker of animals.~
28  Soph|          doubt, after what has been said, that he is to be located
29  Soph|           triumph.~THEAETETUS: Well said; and let us do as you propose.~
30  Soph|      surprised, after what has been said already, that you do not
31  Soph|            And a little while ago I said that not-being is unutterable,
32  Soph|             I not contradict what I said before?~THEAETETUS: Clearly.~
33  Soph|         There is nothing else to be said.~STRANGER: Again, false
34  Soph|          the thought of what I have said, and expect that you will
35  Soph|            own mythus or story;—one said that there were three principles,
36  Soph|       serious. Yet one thing may be said of them without offence—~
37  Soph|       STRANGER: And the same may be said of all the terms just mentioned.~
38  Soph|      distinguish: the soul would be said by them to have a body;
39  Soph|            definition?~STRANGER: We said that being was an active
40  Soph|            were asking of those who said that all was hot and cold?~
41  Soph|             And being itself may be said to be other than the other
42  Soph|            And the not-great may be said to exist, equally with the
43  Soph|          not-just—the one cannot be said to have any more existence
44  Soph|           STRANGER: The same may be said of other things; seeing
45  Soph|           that enquiry we have long said good-bye—it may or may not
46  Soph|           region the Sophist, as we said, made his escape, and, when
47  Soph|             to be truth in what was said about the Sophist at first,
48  Soph|              True.~STRANGER: And we said that we were uncertain in
49  Soph|          authority.~STRANGER: Nobly said, Theaetetus, and if I thought
50  Soph|         then, that things which are said to be made by nature are