Dialogue

  1 Intro|           and from reflection of the mind upon itself. The general
  2 Intro|              not finally made up his mind, and is very ready to follow
  3 Intro|          sameness, number, which the mind contemplates in herself,
  4 Intro|             and which resides in the mind itself. We are thus led
  5 Intro|      question. The comparison of the mind to a block of wax, or to
  6 Intro|              so deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating
  7 Intro|              but the stage which the mind had reached presented other
  8 Intro|       another.~The want of the Greek mind in the fourth century before
  9 Intro|      philosophy which could free the mind from the power of abstractions
 10 Intro|        escape conviction but not the mind, as Euripides would say?’ ‘
 11 Intro|              them as if he could not mind his feet. ‘That is very
 12 Intro|           which above all others the mind perceives in herself, comparing
 13 Intro|          What then is knowledge? The mind, when occupied by herself
 14 Intro|             is the conversing of the mind with herself, which is carried
 15 Intro|           both the two things in his mind, cannot misplace them; and
 16 Intro|              only one of them in his mind, cannot misplace them—on
 17 Intro|            that every man has in his mind a block of wax of various
 18 Intro|             there is no confusion of mind and sense? e.g. in numbers.
 19 Intro|            aviary be an image of the mind, as the waxen block was;
 20 Intro|           image or expression of the mind, and the enumeration of
 21 Intro|              the age of Socrates the mind was passing from the object
 22 Intro|           derives knowledge from the mind (Theaet.), or which assumes
 23 Intro|             ideas independent of the mind (Parm.). Yet from their
 24 Intro|              symbol of motion to one mind is the symbol of rest to
 25 Intro|         compared with that which the mind has attained by reasoning
 26 Intro|            of knowledge to the human mind? Or did he mean to deny
 27 Intro|           uncertainty. The untutored mind is apt to suppose that objects
 28 Intro|            really independent of the mind; there is an adaptation
 29 Intro|              object of sense, of the mind to the conception. There
 30 Intro|         adaptation of objects to the mind to be different from that
 31 Intro|        subjective or relative to the mind, we are not to suppose that
 32 Intro|             from the laws of his own mind; and he cannot escape from
 33 Intro|              be the creations of the mind herself, working upon the
 34 Intro|            which is presented to the mind or to sense. We of course
 35 Intro|           the childhood of the human mind, like the parallel difficulty
 36 Intro|              from one another in the mind of the Greek living in the
 37 Intro|        process, the making up of the mind after she has been ‘talking
 38 Intro|              first as a confusion of mind and sense, which arises
 39 Intro|           when the impression on the mind does not correspond to the
 40 Intro|           between impressions on the mind and impressions on the senses
 41 Intro|            at all. The figure of the mind receiving impressions is
 42 Intro|        conception of thought, as the mind talking to herself; b. the
 43 Intro|       explicit declaration, that the mind gains her conceptions of
 44 Intro|             never be confounded. The mind is endued with faculties,
 45 Intro|         various degrees in which the mind may enter into or be abstracted
 46 Intro|             And within the sphere of mind the analogy of sense reappears;
 47 Intro|            countries. What we are in mind is due, not merely to our
 48 Intro|     themselves constituting a common mind, and having a sort of personal
 49 Intro|         erroneous conceptions of the mind derived from former philosophies
 50 Intro|           error. The division of the mind into faculties or powers
 51 Intro|           bound together in a single mind or consciousness; but this
 52 Intro|            the representation of the mind as a box, as a ‘tabula rasa,’
 53 Intro|        afterwards discards them. The mind is also represented by another
 54 Intro|      faculties and operations of the mind; and in these there is contained
 55 Intro|             sense, common sense, the mind’s eye, are figures of speech
 56 Intro|              to express the works of mind have a materialistic sound;
 57 Intro|            distinction of matter and mind had not as yet arisen. Thus
 58 Intro|                We cannot look at the mind unless we have the eye which
 59 Intro|             not into, but out of the mind at the thoughts, words,
 60 Intro|             regarding the individual mind apart from the universal,
 61 Intro|     philosophies the analysis of the mind is still rudimentary and
 62 Intro|   imperceptibly from one or Being to mind and thought. Appearance
 63 Intro|          described more truly as the mind conversing with herself;
 64 Intro|          nevertheless present to the mind of Aristotle as well as
 65 Intro|              were only probable. The mind, tired of wandering, sought
 66 Intro|       outward objects apart from the mind, or of the mind apart from
 67 Intro|             from the mind, or of the mind apart from them. Soon objects
 68 Intro|              to Protagoras, that the mind is only a succession of
 69 Intro|         future. Any worthy notion of mind or reason includes them.
 70 Intro|             are the apertures of the mind, doors and windows through
 71 Intro|        express the operations of the mind which are immediate or intuitive.
 72 Intro|           with the operations of the mind. Of these latter, it seems
 73 Intro|              variations’ of body and mind. Psychology, on the other
 74 Intro|              shows how they meet the mind; it analyzes the transition
 75 Intro|            as the instruments of the mind. It is in this latter point
 76 Intro|             nascent operation of the mind; it implies objects of sense,
 77 Intro|             by the sense, but by the mind. A mere sensation does not
 78 Intro|               Yet even with them the mind as well as the eye opens
 79 Intro|           distinguishing without the mind.~But prior to objects of
 80 Intro|          Whether space exists in the mind or out of it, is a question
 81 Intro|              say that without it the mind is incapable of conceiving
 82 Intro|            of conceiving itself. The mind may be indeed imagined to
 83 Intro|           But how can the individual mind carry about the universe
 84 Intro|              the growth of the human mind, and has been made by ourselves.
 85 Intro|          sought to explain the human mind without regard to history
 86 Intro|              can no more imagine the mind without the one than the
 87 Intro|         Whether time is prior to the mind and to experience, or coeval
 88 Intro|          condition or quality of the mind. The a priori intuitions
 89 Intro|          Plato, ‘What becomes of the mind?’~Leaving the a priori conditions
 90 Intro|              which are latent in the mind. In general the greater
 91 Intro|           way of recalling it to the mind. Hence memory is dependent
 92 Intro|        conception of a universal—the mind only remembers the individual
 93 Intro|              In later life, when the mind has become crowded with
 94 Intro|            present themselves to the mind, which begins to act upon
 95 Intro|         continue to exist in us. The mind is full of fancies which
 96 Intro|         asleep the lower part of the mind wanders at will amid the
 97 Intro|           pour like a flood over the mind. And if we could penetrate
 98 Intro|          additions that build up the mind’ of the human race. And
 99 Intro|            all the operations of his mind, including the perceptions
100 Intro|             nervous centres from the mind which uses them? Who can
101 Intro|           pains and pleasures of the mind from the pains and pleasures
102 Intro|                active and passive,’ ‘mind and body,’ are best conceived
103 Intro|              the phenomenon. For the mind is not only withdrawn from
104 Intro| instrumentality of language, and the mind learns to grasp universals
105 Intro|             musician’s or composer’s mind, so a great principle or
106 Intro|            impenetrable surface: the mind takes the world to pieces
107 Intro|            constructing or directing mind.~Returning to the senses
108 Intro|          first their relation to the mind, secondly, their relation
109 Intro|               but instruments of the mind with which they are organically
110 Intro|           ear is communicated to the mind and silently informs the
111 Intro|          effect.~The sympathy of the mind and the ear is no less striking
112 Intro|             than the sympathy of the mind and the eye. Do we not seem
113 Intro|            which is furnished by the mind!~Again: the more refined
114 Intro|       concerning the relation of the mind to external objects, is
115 Intro|          speech is disturbing to the mind. The youthful metaphysician
116 Intro|             by the philosopher, that mind is all—when in fact he is
117 Intro|          fact he is going out of his mind in the first intoxication
118 Intro|        question,—What becomes of the mind? Experience tells us by
119 Intro|              the constitution of the mind, of the relation of man
120 Intro|            they stop where the human mind is disposed also to stop—
121 Intro|        themselves. They leave on the mind a pleasing sense of wonder
122 Intro|          with the natural use of the mind as of the body, and we seek
123 Intro|     increases, our perception of the mind enlarges also. We cannot
124 Intro|            facts from ideas. And the mind is not something separate
125 Intro|             in them, and they in the mind, both having a distinctness
126 Intro|             reduce our conception of mind to a succession of feelings
127 Intro|           chronology by minutes. The mind ceases to exist when it
128 Intro|           Like a bird in a cage, the mind confined to sense is always
129 Intro|          dignified conception of the mind. There is no organic unity
130 Intro|              or in modern times, the mind is only the poor recipient
131 Intro|           adequate conception of the mind, of knowledge, of conscience,
132 Intro|            of view of the individual mind, through which, as through
133 Intro|         examined. But the individual mind in the abstract, as distinct
134 Intro|       abstract, as distinct from the mind of a particular individual
135 Intro|            also a common type of the mind which is derived from the
136 Intro|          point to be considered. The mind, when thinking, cannot survey
137 Intro|    scientific method of studying the mind. But Psychology has also
138 Intro|             infinite subtlety of the mind; we are conscious that they
139 Intro|             the missing link between mind and matter...These are the
140 Intro|          which facts relating to the mind most naturally assume.~We
141 Intro|             influence exerted by the mind over the body or by the
142 Intro|              or by the body over the mind: (b) of the power of association,
143 Intro|             of some event recalls to mind, not always but often, other
144 Intro|            reflection, and is to the mind what the bones are to the
145 Intro|          processes of his individual mind. He may learn much about
146 Intro|         others, if he will ‘make his mind sit down’ and look at itself
147 Intro|            we should conceive of the mind in the noblest and simplest
148 Intro|     transferred from the body to the mind. The spiritual and intellectual
149 Intro|          first analysis of the human mind; having a general foundation
150 Intro|            language of the time. The mind is regarded from new points
151 Intro|             or inner sense, when the mind is just awakening: (3) memory,
152 Intro|              5) action, in which the mind moves forward, of itself,
153 Intro|           see these processes of the mind, nor can we tell the causes
154 Intro|            to us the workings of the mind, their experience is the
155 Intro|             But the knowledge of the mind is not to any great extent
156 Intro|         realized the distinctions of mind and body, of universal and
157 Intro|          gave a new existence to the mind in thought, and greatly
158 Intro|             too much division of the mind into parts and too little
159 Intro|       distinction between matter and mind, or to substitute one for
160 Intro|               they have regarded the mind under many points of view.
161 Intro|               have been alien to the mind of Europe.~d. The Psychology
162 Intro|              language represents the mind from different and even
163 Intro|              science or study of the mind proceeds. For example, we
164 Intro|          them, and also a continuing mind to which they belong; the
165 Intro|      absurdity.~e. The growth of the mind, which may be traced in
166 Intro|             of history. We study the mind of man as it begins to be
167 Intro|              slowly transforming the mind, how religions too have
168 Intro|             we speak of the study of mind in a special sense, it may
169 Intro|            the many. They are to the mind, what the senses are to
170 Intro|             a. First, we observe the mind by the mind. It would seem
171 Intro|              observe the mind by the mind. It would seem therefore
172 Intro|          feelings or one part of the mind to interpret another? Is
173 Intro|             is introspected? Has the mind the power of surveying its
174 Intro|          contemplate from within the mind in its true proportions.
175 Intro|              or discontinuity of the mind—it seems to us like an effect
176 Intro|        faculties or processes of the mind, there are real differences
177 Intro|           knowledge; they are to the mind what too much colour is
178 Intro|              leads us to analyze the mind on the analogy of the body,
179 Intro|             of the connexion between mind and body, the explanation
180 Intro|            of distinguishing between mind and body. Neither in thought
181 Intro|             the ideas of them in the mind, or to separate the external
182 Intro|              by which it reaches the mind, or any process of sense
183 Intro|              that in speaking of the mind we cannot always distinguish
184 Intro|       question. We cannot pursue the mind into embryology: we can
185 Intro|      historical investigation of the mind, which is our chief means
186 Intro|              of our knowledge of the mind, the observation of its
187 Intro|           make for ourselves.~l. The mind, when studied through the
188 Intro|           cannot define or limit the mind, but we can describe it.
189 Intro|            line by which we separate mind from matter, the soul from
190 Intro|           soul from the body? Is the mind active or passive, or partly
191 Intro|            nearer connexion with the mind, space with the body; yet
192 Intro|             as parts or forms of the mind. But this is an unfortunate
193 Intro|       phenomena present to the human mind they seem to have most the
194 Intro|         enter into the closet of the mind and withdraw ourselves from
195 Intro|              in any operation of the mind the whole are latent. But
196 Intro|              they are all one in the mind itself; they appear and
197 Intro|              differences of the same mind or person.~d. Nearest the
198 Intro|         rather than a faculty of the mind, and accompanies all mental
199 Intro|            recalled or return to the mind, recognition in which the
200 Intro|             recognition in which the mind finds itself again among
201 Intro|           recall in what we term the mind’s eye the picture of the
202 Intro|         employed in the study of the mind, for it is used in many
203 Intro|  ever-present phenomena of the human mind. We speak of the laws of
204 Intro|          order stick together in the mind. A word may bring back a
205 Intro|              the greatest wonders of mind...This process however is
206 Intro|            spontaneous action of the mind itself or by the latent
207 Intro|           must observe also that the mind is not wholly dependent
208 Intro|           are other processes of the mind which it is good for us
209 Intro|             the greater phenomena of mind, and he who has thought
210 Intro|              them. No account of the mind can be complete which does
211 Intro|     completeness in any study of the mind which is confined to the
212 Intro|            place in the relations of mind and matter, as in the rest
213 Intro|            The facts relating to the mind which we obtain from Physiology
214 Intro|              which when deprived the mind ceases to act. It would
215 Intro|              to our knowledge of the mind from the investigations
216 Intro|          outlines in which the human mind has been cast. From these
217  Thea|             means.~SOCRATES: Bear in mind the whole business of the
218  Thea|        whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings
219  Thea|      Socrates, if I were to speak my mind in reference to this last
220  Thea|             unconvinced, but not our mind. (In allusion to the well-known
221  Thea|          that can be known about the mind, and argue only out of the
222  Thea|            if I never err, and if my mind never trips in the conception
223  Thea|              quickly caught and your mind influenced by popular arguments.
224  Thea|             as the inferior habit of mind has thoughts of kindred
225  Thea|            so I conceive that a good mind causes men to have good
226  Thea|            you determine in your own mind something to be true, and
227  Thea|            your remark recalls to my mind an observation which I have
228  Thea|             only is in the city: his mind, disdaining the littlenesses
229  Thea|           narrow, keen, little legal mind is called to account about
230  Thea|             have a glorious depth of mind. And I am afraid that we
231  Thea|              in some one nature, the mind, or whatever we please to
232  Thea|         separate organ, but that the mind, by a power of her own,
233  Thea|         however called, in which the mind is alone and engaged with
234  Thea|         still troubles the eye of my mind; and I am uncertain whether
235  Thea|              may be the state of his mind?~THEAETETUS: That, again,
236  Thea|              make an exchange in his mind, and say that one real object
237  Thea|          then upon your view for the mind to conceive of one thing
238  Thea|           SOCRATES: But must not the mind, or thinking power, which
239  Thea|              one of them only in his mind and not the other, can he
240  Thea|            of the two objects in his mind can think that the one is
241  Thea|             that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax, which
242  Thea|          seal of both of them in his mind; nor can any mistaking of
243  Thea|            and remembering in my own mind what sort of person he is,
244  Thea|              and know them in my own mind.~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
245  Thea|       possibility imagine in his own mind that Theaetetus is Theodorus.
246  Thea|           wrong impression, or if my mind, like the sight in a mirror,
247  Thea|            not to the other, and the mind fits the seal of the absent
248  Thea|            any case of this sort the mind is deceived; in a word,
249  Thea|          corresponding defect in the mind—the soft are good at learning,
250  Thea|              twelve which are in the mind.~SOCRATES: Well, but do
251  Thea|              ever put before his own mind five and seven,—I do not
252  Thea|              of waxen figment in the mind, so let us now suppose that
253  Thea|              now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an
254  Thea|        science of all numbers in his mind?~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
255  Thea|           but has not at hand in his mind.~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
256  Thea|        ring-dove which he had in his mind, when he wanted the pigeon.~
257  Thea|              present with him in his mind, he should still know nothing
258  Thea|         flying about together in the mind, and then he who sought
259  Thea|              them not at hand in his mind? And thus, in a perpetual
260  Thea|    explanation, you may say that his mind is truly exercised, but
261  Thea|           image or expression of the mind in speech; the second, which
262  Thea|             left an impression on my mind different from the snub-nosedness