Dialogue

 1 Intro|         or Good having different names, or several isolated ideas
 2 Intro|      been applied to the greater names, such as Plotinus, and would
 3 Intro|          not, if all things were names of the One, and nothing
 4 Intro|         reluctant to mention the names of their teachers. Nor can
 5 Intro|          the One Good under many names to be the true Being of
 6 Intro|          of which have ludicrous names. Not that dialectic is a
 7 Intro|      dialectic is a respecter of names or persons, or a despiser
 8 Intro|        of any art having so many names and kinds of knowledge.
 9 Intro|      being and one two different names for the same thing? But
10 Intro|         But how can there be two names when there is nothing but
11 Intro|      what we mean by giving many names to the same thing, e.g.
12 Intro|         being well provided with names, the former I will venture
13  Soph|          two; or do they, as the names are three, distinguish also
14  Soph|         which has many kinds and names, and water-animal hunting,
15  Soph|       The latter should have two names,—one descriptive of the
16  Soph|    menial occupations which have names among servants?~THEAETETUS:
17  Soph| particulars, having a variety of names which are thought ridiculous.~
18  Soph|       wrong? The multiplicity of names which is applied to him
19  Soph|        one, and do you apply two names to the same thing?~THEAETETUS:
20  Soph|        STRANGER: To admit of two names, and to affirm that there
21  Soph|        we come to predicate many names of the same thing.~THEAETETUS:
22  Soph|          for example, under many names—that we attribute to him
23  Soph|          as many, and under many names.~THEAETETUS: That is true.~
24  Soph|        being and other to be two names of the same class?~THEAETETUS:
25  Soph|       Then, now, let us speak of names, as before we were speaking
26  Soph|          question at issue about names?~STRANGER: The question
27  Soph|          at issue is whether all names may be connected with one
28  Soph|         will be. And he not only names, but he does something,
29  Soph|         is no great abundance of names. Yet, for the sake of distinctness,