Dialogue

  1 Intro|        the work of Protagoras on ‘Truth’ we know nothing, with the
  2 Intro|       remark, that Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras before him,
  3 Intro|          found; ‘he told the real truth’ (not in the book, which
  4 Intro|           apt to imagine that the truth is only spoken by Socrates,
  5 Intro|           possession of the whole truth. Arguments are often put
  6 Intro|            but in other dialogues truth is divided, as in the Laches
  7 Intro|     knowledge which have germs of truth in them; as, for example, ‘
  8 Intro|         with him; and, to say the truth, he is very like you, for
  9 Intro|         allow me to dissemble the truth. Once more then, Theaetetus,
 10 Intro|          you and me; he told “the truth” (in allusion to the title
 11 Intro|       book, which was called “The Truth”) in secret to his disciples.
 12 Intro|           begin his great work on Truth with a declaration that
 13 Intro|   enormous folly, if Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth, and the
 14 Intro|     Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth, and the philosopher is
 15 Intro|        not consist in any greater truth or superior knowledge. For
 16 Intro|         own showing must not his ‘truth’ depend on the number of
 17 Intro|          he speaks truly; and his truth will be true neither to
 18 Intro|           is not going beyond the truth. But if the old Protagoras
 19 Intro|          unable to meet them with truth and honesty, and he has
 20 Intro|          gain reputation, but the truth is, that the outer form
 21 Intro|           to be good. And yet the truth is, that God is righteous;
 22 Intro|          that we can disprove the truth of immediate states of feeling.
 23 Intro|           Oceanus and Tethys; the truth was once concealed, but
 24 Intro|            and therefore fails of truth; and therefore has no share
 25 Intro|        and the final criterion of truth, because the outward can
 26 Intro|          an objective standard of truth?~These two questions have
 27 Intro|          the tests or criteria of truth. One man still remains wiser
 28 Intro|          less certain. Again, the truth must often come to a man
 29 Intro|       such a mass of acknowledged truth in the mathematical and
 30 Intro|   acquiesce in the statement that truth is appearance only, or that
 31 Intro| difference between appearance and truth.~The relativity of knowledge
 32 Intro|          an objective standard of truth. He did not consider whether
 33 Intro|    brought back from ‘nature’ to ‘truth,’ from the world to man.
 34 Intro|         good without caring about truth, is by no means singular,
 35 Intro|    Socrates with going beyond the truth; and Protagoras has equally
 36 Intro|         arguments there remains a truth, that knowledge is something
 37 Intro|         explanation an element of truth which is not recognized
 38 Intro|    recognized by Plato; viz. that truth and thought are inseparable
 39 Intro|        expression in words is not truth. The second explanation
 40 Intro|        double aspects under which truth is so often presented to
 41 Intro|          cannot be both is a half truth only. These are a few of
 42 Intro|      reasoning and have a certain truth to us.~Whether space exists
 43 Intro|           their recurrence or the truth of the consequences which
 44 Intro|           been taught it, and the truth which we were taught or
 45 Intro|       than to assume that all the truth which we are capable of
 46 Intro|         may be applied with equal truth to memory as well. For memory
 47 Intro|      impressions of sense are the truth of the world in which we
 48 Intro|          prior to experience. The truth seems to be that we begin
 49 Intro|       upon us in the search after truth. But imagination is also
 50 Intro|          Weary of asking ‘What is truth?’ it accepts the ‘blind
 51 Intro|       always been seeking after a truth or ideal of which they fell
 52 Intro|        affords no evidence of its truth or value. Many who have
 53 Intro|   accurate representations of the truth; they are the reflections
 54 Intro|          a nearer approach to the truth than is to be gained from
 55 Intro|     colour is to the eye; but the truth is rather concealed than
 56 Intro|          the enquiry; whereas, in truth, it is indistinguishable
 57 Intro| immortality; he sees the forms of truth, holiness and love, and
 58 Intro|           together has tested the truth of them, and given a stimulus
 59 Intro|           of man. There can be no truth or completeness in any study
 60  Thea|        the young fellows; for the truth is, that I am unused to
 61  Thea|          would bring to light the truth.~SOCRATES: Come, you made
 62  Thea|        lies and shams than of the truth; and they have at last ended
 63  Thea|       falsehood, or to stifle the truth. Once more, then, Theaetetus,
 64  Thea|          you and me, but told the truth, ‘his Truth,’ (In allusion
 65  Thea|          but told the truth, ‘his Truth,’ (In allusion to a book
 66  Thea|        you to unearth the hidden ‘truth’ of a famous man or school.~
 67  Thea|           our lives we affirm the truth of the one, and, during
 68  Thea|       Certainly.~SOCRATES: And is truth or falsehood to be determined
 69  Thea|          this, after all, not the truth?~SOCRATES: You, Theodorus,
 70  Thea|         did not begin his book on Truth with a declaration that
 71  Thea|       overpowering effect? For if truth is only sensation, and no
 72  Thea|           the case if Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth, and the
 73  Thea|     Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth, and the philosopher is
 74  Thea|          made fun of poor me. The truth is, O slatternly Socrates,
 75  Thea|            For I declare that the truth is as I have written, and
 76  Thea|       must it not follow that the truth of which Protagoras wrote
 77  Thea|            in that proportion his truth is more untrue than true.~
 78  Thea|          That would follow if the truth is supposed to vary with
 79  Thea|          that he acknowledges the truth of their opinion who believe
 80  Thea|            Yes.~SOCRATES: And the truth of Protagoras being doubted
 81  Thea|           we are going beyond the truth. Doubtless, as he is older,
 82  Thea|          essence of their own—the truth is that which is agreed
 83  Thea|         only aim is to attain the truth. But the lawyer is always
 84  Thea|       which were too much for his truth and honesty, came upon him
 85  Thea|        gain a reputation; but the truth is, that the outer form
 86  Thea|    Socrates, as you do me, of the truth of your words, there would
 87  Thea|        wives’ fable. Whereas, the truth is that God is never in
 88  Thea|           caught when he ascribes truth to the opinions of others,
 89  Thea|  Protagoras desires; and give the truth of the universal flux a
 90  Thea|  river-gods,’ and, if we find any truth in them, we will help them
 91  Thea|        and there would be no more truth in saying that all things
 92  Thea|    SOCRATES: And can a man attain truth who fails of attaining being?~
 93  Thea|         And can he who misses the truth of anything, have a knowledge
 94  Thea|           in the mere impression, truth and being can be attained?~
 95  Thea|         part in the attainment of truth any more than of being?~
 96  Thea|         we not suspect the simple truth to be that he who thinks
 97  Thea|          to have spoken the exact truth: when a man puts the base
 98  Thea|       SOCRATES: And the origin of truth and error is as follows:—
 99  Thea|           the verb ‘to know’? The truth is, Theaetetus, that we
100  Thea|         to convince others of the truth about acts of robbery or
101  Thea|           manner, we have found a truth which in former times many