Dialogue

 1 Intro|          the name of a particular class, and would have been applied
 2 Intro|            Examples of the former class are furnished by some ecclesiastical
 3 Intro|            Examples of the latter class may also be found in a similar
 4 Intro|          the obnoxious or derided class; this tends to define the
 5 Intro|    Protagoras, under the specific class of Sophists? To this question
 6 Intro|        are regarded as a separate class in all of them. And in later
 7 Intro|        regarding Not-being as one class of Being, and yet as coextensive
 8 Intro|           are merged in one great class of the infinite or negative.
 9 Intro|    not-just’ in or about the same class in which we might expect
10 Intro|          beautiful, or a specific class in various degrees opposed
11 Intro|         not. Besides the positive class to which he belongs, there
12 Intro|           a subject to a negative class is unmeaning, unless the ‘
13 Intro|     dishonourable’; or unless the class is characterized by the
14 Intro|         denial of some particular class of Being. If we attempt
15 Intro|           divine person, one of a class who are hardly recognized
16 Intro|      cease to look for him in the class of imitators.~But ought
17 Intro|            Let us place them in a class with our previous opponents,
18 Intro|       others have no meaning. One class of words describes action,
19 Intro|         describes action, another class agents: ‘walks,’ ‘runs,’ ‘
20 Intro|     Sophist is to be found in the class of imitators. All art was
21  Soph|            Next follows the whole class of learning and cognition;
22  Soph| acquisitive or creative, in which class shall we place the art of
23  Soph|        Clearly in the acquisitive class.~STRANGER: And the acquisitive
24  Soph|          of swimming animals, one class lives on the wing and the
25  Soph|         Yes; each of them forms a class.~STRANGER: And of private
26  Soph|           the proper name for the class described.~STRANGER: Then
27  Soph|          faculty to be a distinct class, but has hitherto had no
28  Soph|          belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished
29  Soph|          which includes under one class the most diverse sorts of
30  Soph|          we must place him in the class of magicians and mimics.~
31  Soph|         in looking for him in the class of false workers and magicians,
32  Soph|      shall we gather all into one class of things communicable with
33  Soph|           the same to be a fourth class, which is now to be added
34  Soph|         we call the other a fifth class? Or should we consider being
35  Soph|          be two names of the same class?~THEAETETUS: Very likely.~
36  Soph|           STRANGER: And the fifth class pervades all classes, for
37  Soph|       case of motion and of every class; for the nature of the other
38  Soph|           assume.~STRANGER: Every class, then, has plurality of
39  Soph|         an existence as any other class? May I not say with confidence
40  Soph|           of the other, becomes a class other than the remaining
41  Soph|          are of the non-partaking class; and he will still fight
42  Soph|           look for him in another class.~THEAETETUS: Certainly,
43  Soph|           first, that he was of a class not easily caught, for he
44  Soph|      attempt, and in dividing any class, always take the part to
45  Soph|      before us in the acquisitive class, in the subdivisions of
46  Soph|      forget that of the imitative class the one part was to have
47  Soph|        reality and belongs to the class of real being.~THEAETETUS:
48  Soph|       else the duty of making the class and giving it a suitable
49  Soph|      further speak of this latter class as having one or two divisions?~
50  Soph|         and is separated from the class of phantastic which is a