Dialogue

 1 Intro|    slippery things; but for the present let us assume the resemblance
 2 Intro|     other.~Leaving them for the present, let us enquire what we
 3 Intro|      opinion.~The latter is our present concern, for the Sophist
 4 Intro|        has become awakened. The present has been the past. The succession
 5 Intro|        iii) Whether regarded as present or past, under the form
 6 Intro|    reverting to a time when our present distinctions of thought
 7 Intro|      vision of what is near and present to us.~To Hegel, as to the
 8 Intro|      physical science, which at present occupies so large a share
 9  Soph|        SOCRATES: Any one of the present company will respond kindly
10  Soph|         in a discussion; for at present we are only agreed about
11  Soph|      has been discovered in the present argument; and let this be
12  Soph|    think that I understand your present question.~STRANGER: I ask
13  Soph|    consider the points which at present are regarded as self-evident,
14  Soph|        not-being,’ which is our present subject of dispute; and
15  Soph|        surely that which may be present or may be absent will be
16  Soph|         our minds; but, for the present, this may be regarded as
17  Soph|       and soul and mind are not present with perfect being? Can
18  Soph|         within the scope of the present enquiry, if peradventure
19  Soph|       and if any one denies our present statement [viz., that being
20  Soph| definition. But as touching our present account of not-being, let
21  Soph|     STRANGER: The former is our present concern, for the Sophist