Dialogue

 1 Intro|    frequent use of the words ‘essence,’ ‘power,’ ‘generation,’ ‘
 2 Intro|    from scholastic notions of essence or substance, might still
 3 Intro| not-just as the just. And the essence of the not-beautiful is
 4 Intro|       an imaginary science of essence, and no longer to retain
 5 Intro|      picture vanishes and the essence is detached in thought from
 6 Intro|      the division into being, essence, and notion, are not the
 7 Intro|  Being, Not-being, existence, essence, notion, and the like challenged
 8 Intro|   example the words ‘Being,’ ‘essence,’ ‘matter,’ ‘form,’ either
 9  Soph|     made about generation and essence, we know that such persons
10  Soph|        cannot speak either of essence or generation as existing.~
11  Soph|   another about the nature of essence.~THEAETETUS: How is that?~
12  Soph|      or handled have being or essence, because they define being
13  Soph| mightily contending that true essence consists of certain intelligible
14  Soph|    and affirm them to be, not essence, but generation and motion.
15  Soph|       of that which they call essence.~THEAETETUS: How shall we
16  Soph|     say—You would distinguish essence from generation?~THEAETETUS: ‘
17  Soph|       through thought in true essence; and essence you would affirm
18  Soph|  thought in true essence; and essence you would affirm to be always
19  Soph|      knows, and that being or essence is known.~THEAETETUS: There
20  Soph|   venture to say so, as truly essence as being itself, and implies