Dialogue

 1 Intro|        existence. At length the difficulty is solved; the answer, in
 2 Intro|         and thought, we have no difficulty in apprehending that a proposition
 3 Intro|         only be made with great difficulty, and not unless they are
 4 Intro|    under Not-being. Nor was any difficulty or perplexity thus created,
 5 Intro|         allo de eipe.~For their difficulty was not a practical but
 6 Intro|    Being. And the answer to the difficulty about Being may be equally
 7 Intro|       equally the answer to the difficulty about Not-being.~The answer
 8 Intro|  appearance only? Here arises a difficulty which has always beset the
 9 Intro|         now arises the greatest difficulty of all. If not-being is
10 Intro|      there is no way out of the difficulty except to show that in some
11 Intro|       he and we are in the same difficulty with which we reproached
12 Intro|         moves? Here is a second difficulty about being, quite as great
13 Intro|       and Hegel. But there is a difficulty in separating the germ from
14 Intro|        For Plato is answering a difficulty; he is seeking to justify
15 Intro|       the most obscure: and the difficulty inherent in the subject
16 Intro| sensible how great would be the difficulty of presenting philosophy
17 Intro|      both; and there is as much difficulty in conceiving the body without
18 Intro|        of Greece and we have no difficulty in constructing them out
19 Intro|         gathered up in one. The difficulty is greatly increased when
20 Intro| uncertain meaning which he with difficulty remembers. No former philosopher
21 Intro|         years?~Again, we have a difficulty in understanding how ideas
22  Soph|         THEODORUS: What is your difficulty about them, and what made
23  Soph|       Theodorus, nor have I any difficulty in replying that by us they
24  Soph|         There is at any rate no difficulty in seeing that the predicate ‘
25  Soph|         at all.~THEAETETUS: The difficulty of the argument can no further
26  Soph|   telling you just now that the difficulty which was coming is the
27  Soph|         that you do not see the difficulty in which he who would refute
28  Soph|    indeed, I see.~STRANGER: The difficulty is how to define his art
29  Soph|        Since, then, we are in a difficulty, please to tell us what
30  Soph|      unity of being will find a difficulty in answering this or any
31  Soph|       there will be the further difficulty, that besides having no
32  Soph|       ideas, there will be less difficulty, for they are civil people
33  Soph|        there will be very great difficulty, or rather an absolute impossibility,
34  Soph|        Perhaps they may be in a difficulty; and if this is the case,
35  Soph|       beginning to see the real difficulty of the enquiry into the
36  Soph|         we were in the greatest difficulty:—do you remember?~THEAETETUS:
37  Soph|        we not now in as great a difficulty about being?~THEAETETUS:
38  Soph|     Then let us acknowledge the difficulty; and as being and not-being
39  Soph|        puzzles, and there is no difficulty in detecting them; but we
40  Soph|         puzzles as involving no difficulty, he should be able to follow
41  Soph|      And even now, we have with difficulty got through his first defence,