Dialogue

 1 Intro|          fiction of question and answer is still maintained, and
 2 Intro|        difficulty is solved; the answer, in the language of the
 3 Intro|         To this question we must answer, No: if ever the term is
 4 Intro|          serious importance? The answer to this, and to nearly all
 5 Intro|        history of ideas, and the answer is only unsatisfactory because
 6 Intro| determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty about
 7 Intro|         Being may be equally the answer to the difficulty about
 8 Intro|  difficulty about Not-being.~The answer is, that in these and all
 9 Intro|        speech or of question and answer. He prefers the latter,
10 Intro|        of all images?’ ‘I should answer, Such another, made in the
11 Intro|         to argue before they can answer. Yet, for the sake of the
12 Intro|          suffering? To this they answer—I am acquainted with them,
13 Intro|          to us appears to be the answer of common sense—that Not-being
14 Intro|        to be erroneous, he might answer in some such manner as the
15  Soph|       and that he remembered the answer.~SOCRATES: Then do not,
16  Soph|       the method of question and answer. I remember hearing a very
17  Soph|        to show off. For the true answer will certainly be a very
18  Soph|           There is only one true answer: he is the wonderful Sophist,
19  Soph|      shall soonest arrive at the answer to this question.~THEAETETUS:
20  Soph|        craftsman ought to say in answer to any question is written
21  Soph|          tell you, and you shall answer me, giving your very closest
22  Soph|    assenting into giving a hasty answer?~THEAETETUS: May I ask to
23  Soph|    single out in reply, and what answer he would make to the enquirer?~
24  Soph|  Theaetetus, how we can possibly answer the younker’s question?~
25  Soph|        shall reply to them, ‘the answer is plainly that the two
26  Soph|  impropriety in our demanding an answer to this question, either
27  Soph|          STRANGER: Then let them answer this question: One, you
28  Soph|   THEAETETUS: What will be their answer, Stranger?~STRANGER: It
29  Soph|         are, and more willing to answer in accordance with the rules
30  Soph|          may fail to catch their answer, which I recognize because
31  Soph|    THEAETETUS: And what is their answer?~STRANGER: They deny the
32  Soph|    THEAETETUS: I have nothing to answer on their behalf. Suppose
33  Soph|         one then, who desires to answer truly, will adopt the third
34  Soph|       the direction in which the answer may be expected.~THEAETETUS:
35  Soph|       two divisions?~THEAETETUS: Answer yourself.~STRANGER: Upon