Dialogue

 1 Intro|  purification? Sophists I may not call them. Yet they bear about
 2 Intro|          left in his hole. We may call him an image-maker if we
 3 Intro|     father Parmenides; but do not call me a parricide; for there
 4 Intro|          former I will venture to call the imitation of science,
 5 Intro|            what we are pleased to call our minds,’ by reverting
 6  Soph|            STRANGER: And shall we call our new friend unskilled,
 7  Soph|       STRANGER: And would you not call by the same name him who
 8  Soph|           have been accustomed to call argumentation (Eristic)?~
 9  Soph|          is the other, which they call ignorance, and which, because
10  Soph|           like, may we not fairly call a likeness or image?~THEAETETUS:
11  Soph|           not, as I did just now, call that part of the imitative
12  Soph|       STRANGER: And what shall we call those resemblances of the
13  Soph|    profess to be like? May we not call these ‘appearances,’ since
14  Soph|   STRANGER: And may we not fairly call the sort of art, which produces
15  Soph|       upon ourselves; and when we call him an image-maker he will
16  Soph|         speak of as many, and yet call by the single name of image,
17  Soph|            STRANGER: Then what we call an image is in reality really
18  Soph|            I conceive, will be to call into our presence the dualistic
19  Soph|      there is something which you call ‘being’?~THEAETETUS: ‘Yes.’~
20  Soph|        account of that which they call essence.~THEAETETUS: How
21  Soph|     argument and yet forbid us to call anything, because participating
22  Soph|           STRANGER: How are we to call it? By Zeus, have we not
23  Soph|            STRANGER: And shall we call the other a fifth class?
24  Soph|         in the same sense; but we call it the ‘same,’ in relation
25  Soph|           It has; for whatever we call not-beautiful is other than
26  Soph|      STRANGER: What then shall we call it?~THEAETETUS: Clearly,
27  Soph|          what we have ventured to call not-being.~THEAETETUS: And
28  Soph|           which denotes action we call a verb.~THEAETETUS: True.~
29  Soph|      those who do the actions, we call a noun.~THEAETETUS: Quite
30  Soph|           learns,’ should you not call this the simplest and least
31  Soph|        any other name by which to call it but opinion?~THEAETETUS:
32  Soph|           of sense, would you not call it imagination?~THEAETETUS:
33  Soph| distinctness, I will make bold to call the imitation which coexists
34  Soph|       STRANGER: And what shall we call the other? Is he the philosopher