Dialogue

  1 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things;’ and of this again the
  2 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,’ with the other, ‘All knowledge
  3 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,’ and, ‘Whether there are
  4 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,’ is expressly identified
  5 Intro|         see, or rather seem to see things clearly, when they have
  6 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things.” He was a very wise man,
  7 Intro|            philosophy in which all things are said to be relative;
  8 Intro|          about themselves, but the things which are born of them have
  9 Intro|           that nothing is, but all things become; no name can detain
 10 Intro|            of the notion that “All things are becoming”?’~‘When I
 11 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,” the doctrine of Theaetetus
 12 Intro|     sensation, is a measure of all things; then, while we were reverencing
 13 Intro|          man is the measure of all things? My own art of midwifery,
 14 Intro|          man is the measure of all things, although I admit that one
 15 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things;’ and then who is to decide?
 16 Intro|          as with line and rule the things which are under and in the
 17 Intro|            in motion, and not some things only, as he ignorantly fancied,
 18 Intro|          change of nature?—And all things must be supposed to have
 19 Intro|       motion; for if not, the same things would be at rest and in
 20 Intro|            know or do not know all things? Let us try another answer
 21 Intro|      process of thinking about two things, either together or alternately.
 22 Intro|            He who has both the two things in his mind, cannot misplace
 23 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things.’ The interpretation which
 24 Intro|            these latter words is: ‘Things are to me as they appear
 25 Intro|        sense was a ‘measure of all things.’ Like other great thinkers,
 26 Intro|         sensationalism. For if all things are changing at every moment,
 27 Intro|      experience. Any separation of things which we cannot see or exactly
 28 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,’ and that ‘All knowledge
 29 Intro|         But he soon finds that all things remain as they were —the
 30 Intro|     existence of the senses of all things? We are but ‘such stuff
 31 Intro|            should enquire into all things before we accept them;—with
 32 Intro|          are prone to acquiesce in things as they are, or rather appear
 33 Intro|            when we are speaking of things unseen, the principal terms
 34 Intro|    recollection in which forgotten things are recalled or return to
 35 Intro|           finds itself again among things once familiar. The simplest
 36 Intro|            long interval: How many things have happened since I last
 37 Intro|         hear separately one of two things, which we have previously
 38 Intro|      intermittent: we can think of things in isolation as well as
 39 Intro|           it has to do with common things, which are familiar to us
 40 Intro|          back to the beginnings of things, to the first growth of
 41  Thea|          seems to understand these things. And I get on pretty well
 42  Thea|          you give many and diverse things, when I am asking for one
 43  Thea|     knowledge, as well as of other things.~THEAETETUS: I am eager
 44  Thea|        says, is the measure of all things, of the existence of things
 45  Thea|        things, of the existence of things that are, and of the non-existence
 46  Thea|            of the non-existence of things that are not:—You have read
 47  Thea|     SOCRATES: Does he not say that things are to you such as they
 48  Thea|          in similar instances; for things appear, or may be supposed
 49  Thea|          have been! He spoke these things in a parable to the common
 50  Thea|        high argument, in which all things are said to be relative;
 51  Thea|           change and admixture all things are becoming relatively
 52  Thea|           nothing ever is, but all things are becoming. Summon all
 53  Thea|          does he not mean that all things are the offspring, of flux
 54  Thea|          and guardian of all other things, are born of movement and
 55  Thea|         round in their orbits, all things human and divine are and
 56  Thea|           motions ceased, then all things would be destroyed, and,
 57  Thea|          purport is that all these things are in motion, as I was
 58  Thea|        place and with reference to things near them, and so they beget;
 59  Thea|         the language of nature all things are being created and destroyed,
 60  Thea|           as well as all the other things which we were just now mentioning?~
 61  Thea|          man is the measure of all things; or with Theaetetus, that,
 62  Thea|   sensation, is the measure of all things; then he might have shown
 63  Thea|           one, but now the face of things has changed.~SOCRATES: Why,
 64  Thea|    something, surely.~SOCRATES: Of things learned and perceived, that
 65  Thea|          might have been yet worse things in store for you, if an
 66  Thea|           He will repeat all those things which we have been urging
 67  Thea|            proportion as different things are and appear to him. And
 68  Thea|          mean when we say that all things are in motion, and that
 69  Thea|          Man is the measure of all things,’ was a solemn one; and
 70  Thea|       wiser than other men in some things, and their inferior in others?
 71  Thea|           to be the measure of all things.~THEODORUS: How so?~SOCRATES:
 72  Thea|          man is the measure of all things, must it not follow that
 73  Thea|         Protagoras, viz. that most things, and all immediate sensations,
 74  Thea|         and nothingnesses of human things, is ‘flying all abroad’
 75  Thea|           earth and heaven and the things which are under and on the
 76  Thea|           which he has to speak of things which are at his feet and
 77  Thea|         another and from all other things; or from the commonplaces
 78  Thea|           sayer and doer of unholy things, had far better not be encouraged
 79  Thea|         injustice, which above all things they ought to know—not stripes
 80  Thea|       perpetual flux, who say that things are as they seem to each
 81  Thea|        declare, the measure of all things—white, heavy, light: of
 82  Thea|          heavy, light: of all such things he is the judge; for he
 83  Thea|            and when he thinks that things are such as he experiences
 84  Thea|            of what will be, and do things always happen to him as
 85  Thea|          Tethys, the origin of all things, are streams, and that nothing
 86  Thea|        foolishly imagine that some things are at rest and others in
 87  Thea|        mean when they say that all things are in motion? Is there
 88  Thea|           and ask them whether all things according to them have the
 89  Thea|            they would say that all things are moved in both ways.~
 90  Thea|          have to say that the same things are in motion and at rest,
 91  Thea|           truth in saying that all things are in motion, than that
 92  Thea|           in motion, than that all things are at rest.~THEODORUS:
 93  Thea|           be devoid of motion, all things must always have every sort
 94  Thea|       white, and the like of other things. For I must repeat what
 95  Thea|          we are concerned: Are all things in motion and flux?~THEODORUS:
 96  Thea|          what is the nature of the things which are in motion and
 97  Thea|   THEODORUS: Certainly not, if all things are in motion.~SOCRATES:
 98  Thea|         any non-perception, if all things partake of every kind of
 99  Thea|          man is the measure of all things—a wise man only is a measure;
100  Thea|          of those who say that all things are at rest, as you were
101  Thea|       sensible objects, but in all things, universal notions, such
102  Thea| contemplates the universals in all things.~SOCRATES: You are a beauty,
103  Thea|           that the soul views some things by herself and others through
104  Thea|            by comparing in herself things past and present with the
105  Thea|    certainly say so.~SOCRATES: All things and everything are either
106  Thea|          false opinion? For if all things are either known or unknown,
107  Thea|           found among non-existing things?~THEAETETUS: I do not.~SOCRATES:
108  Thea|       should know and not know the things which we know?~THEAETETUS:
109  Thea|         person may think that some things which he knows, or which
110  Thea|           not know, are some other things which he knows and perceives;
111  Thea|            perceives; or that some things which he knows and perceives,
112  Thea|           and perceives, are other things which he knows and perceives.~
113  Thea|           error or deception about things which a man does not know
114  Thea|       never perceived, but only in things which are known and perceived;
115  Thea|        having clear impressions of things, as we term them, quickly
116  Thea|            numbers in his head, or things about him which are numerable?~
117  Thea|     nothing and be ignorant of all things?—you might as well argue
118  Thea|            fancy that he knows the things about which he has been
119  Thea|      sphere of knowledge; and that things of which there is no rational
120  Thea|  expression which he used—and that things which have a reason or explanation
121  Thea|         did he distinguish between things which are and are not ‘knowable’?
122  Thea|            you and I and all other things are compounded, have no
123  Thea|  everywhere and are applied to all things, but are distinct from them;
124  Thea|        nothing but a name, and the things which are compounded of
125  Thea|      predicating the word ‘all’ of things measured by number, we predicate
126  Thea|             SOCRATES: Then as many things as have parts are made up
127  Thea|    elements out of which all other things are compounded there could
128  Thea|        admit the resolution of all things into their elements to be
129  Thea|            the definition of those things to which this common quality
130  Thea|        distinguishes it from other things will know that of which
131  Thea|            blind; for to add those things which we already have, in
132  Thea|         nor do I know aught of the things which great and famous men