Dialogue

  1 Intro|         times of confusion; we only see, or rather seem to see things
  2 Intro|         only see, or rather seem to see things clearly, when they
  3 Intro|          says Socrates, ‘that I may see in you, Theaetetus, the
  4 Intro|        seeing themselves, as others see them, to be great fools.
  5 Intro|          and I am their matchmaker (see above), and marry them to
  6 Intro|    something; and presently we will see whether you have brought
  7 Intro|            say that we know what we see and hear,—e.g. the sound
  8 Intro|             he may remember and not see; and if seeing is knowing,
  9 Intro|         eyes; and now, says he, you see and do not see, but do you
 10 Intro|         says he, you see and do not see, but do you know and not
 11 Intro|           or ecclesia; they neither see nor hear the laws and votes
 12 Intro|           heaven, that he could not see what was before his feet.
 13 Intro|       unlike the other. He does not see that if he continues in
 14 Intro|            parallel case? Can a man see and see nothing? or hear
 15 Intro|             case? Can a man see and see nothing? or hear and hear
 16 Intro|          touch nothing? Must he not see, hear, or touch some one
 17 Intro|    Theodorus and Theaetetus and not see them; I may see them, and
 18 Intro|             and not see them; I may see them, and not know them. ‘
 19 Intro|          knowing both of you I only see one; or when, seeing and
 20 Intro|        opinion; from stupidity they see and hear and think amiss;
 21 Intro|            blindness could make him see. Theaetetus suggests that
 22 Intro|      difference.~For example, I may see a man who has eyes, nose,
 23 Intro|             are like me. But when I see a certain kind of snub-nosedness,
 24 Intro|           to-morrow I shall hope to see you again, Theodorus, at
 25 Intro|         Like Socrates, he seemed to see that philosophy must be
 26 Intro|        cannot be truly said both to see and not to see; nor is memory,
 27 Intro|         said both to see and not to see; nor is memory, which is
 28 Intro|             genius saw or seemed to see a common tendency in them,
 29 Intro|          genius he saw or seemed to see a mysterious principle working
 30 Intro|              and we are admitted to see or feel ‘through them’ and
 31 Intro|           of things which we cannot see or exactly define, though
 32 Intro|             reflect on ourselves we see that all our faculties easily
 33 Intro|       language from bodily ones. To see or perceive are used indifferently
 34 Intro|           without the eye we cannot see: and yet there is far more
 35 Intro|            memory. And as we cannot see one thing without at the
 36 Intro|          and inconceivable.~Thus we see that no line can be drawn
 37 Intro|        nothing is, and that what we see or feel is our sensation
 38 Intro|            who rise above them, who see the distant hills, who soar
 39 Intro|      hierophants and philosophers. (See Introd. to Cratylus.)~b.
 40 Intro|           various degrees. We never see these processes of the mind,
 41 Intro|        another, which enables us to see nearly the whole, if not
 42 Intro|           to our idea of either. We see also that they have an analogy
 43 Intro|           is that of sense. When we see or hear separately one of
 44  Thea|             whom they follow, and I see that a great many of them
 45  Thea|         coming towards us. Look and see whether you know him.~SOCRATES:
 46  Thea|     Theaetetus, in order that I may see the reflection of myself
 47  Thea|         midwives, and then you will see my meaning better:—No woman,
 48  Thea|            if you reflect, you will see that the same art which
 49  Thea|        seeing themselves, as others see them, to be great fools.
 50  Thea|         knows, and, as far as I can see at present, knowledge is
 51  Thea|            conception of yours, and see whether it is a true birth
 52  Thea|    self-existent, and then we shall see that white, black, and every
 53  Thea|   professional aims, only desire to see what is the mutual relation
 54  Thea|          and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in
 55  Thea|  contemplation of them.~SOCRATES: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that
 56  Thea|        wonder). But do you begin to see what is the explanation
 57  Thea|             a look round, then, and see that none of the uninitiated
 58  Thea|        objects akin to them. Do you see, Theaetetus, the bearings
 59  Thea|             sleep.~SOCRATES: Do you see another question which can
 60  Thea|          astonishing.~SOCRATES: You see, then, that a doubt about
 61  Thea|            the hearth with him, and see whether he is worth rearing,
 62  Thea|        exposed? or will you bear to see him rejected, and not get
 63  Thea|         predecessor. But you do not see that in reality none of
 64  Thea|           know every thing which we see and hear? for example, shall
 65  Thea|             saying? Or again, if we see letters which we do not
 66  Thea|         shall we say that we do not see them? or shall we aver that,
 67  Thea|            we know what we actually see and hear of them—that is
 68  Thea|             them—that is to say, we see and know the figure and
 69  Thea|           know, because he does not see; and this has been affirmed
 70  Thea|             eyes shut and could not see, and then he would at the
 71  Thea|            up his cause myself, and see justice done?~THEODORUS:
 72  Thea|          good, Theodorus; you shall see how I will come to the rescue.
 73  Thea|            and asks whether you can see his cloak with the eye which
 74  Thea|          other.’~SOCRATES: Then you see and do not see the same
 75  Thea|             Then you see and do not see the same thing at the same
 76  Thea|             You have been proved to see that which you do not see;
 77  Thea|           see that which you do not see; and you have already admitted
 78  Thea|           frightened, and could not see what was coming, and then
 79  Thea|         answer one another, for you see that the rest of us are
 80  Thea|           to our old objection, and see whether we were right in
 81  Thea|    political assembly; they neither see nor hear the laws or decrees,
 82  Thea|           heaven, that he could not see what was before his feet.
 83  Thea|           wretched: but they do not see them, or perceive that in
 84  Thea|           you: With what does a man see black and white colours?
 85  Thea|             correct, to say that we see or hear with the eyes and
 86  Thea|       memory all that has preceded, see if you have arrived at any
 87  Thea|           mean?~SOCRATES: Can a man see something and yet see nothing?~
 88  Thea|           man see something and yet see nothing?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~
 89  Thea|          false opinion.~SOCRATES: I see, Theaetetus, that your fear
 90  Thea|         Socrates, and at a distance see some one who is unknown
 91  Thea| intermediate quality.~THEAETETUS: I see.~SOCRATES: Let us say that
 92  Thea|          Theaetetus is, at one time see them, and at another time
 93  Thea|          and at another time do not see them, and sometimes I touch
 94  Thea|             is also true.~SOCRATES: See whether you can follow me
 95  Thea|        false opinion; for when they see or hear or think of anything,
 96  Thea|        confuse them, and are apt to see and hear and think amiss—
 97  Thea|            discovery.~THEAETETUS: I see no reason why we should
 98  Thea|            only think of and do not see, cannot be confused with
 99  Thea|           the horse which we do not see or touch, but only think
100  Thea|              and blindness make him see, as that knowledge can make
101  Thea|       simple and indivisible? I can see no other.~THEAETETUS: No
102  Thea|          Theodorus, I shall hope to see you again at this place.~