Dialogue

 1 Intro|            way of expressing the same thing when he says, “Man is the
 2 Intro|            know and not know the same thing at the same time. Or, if
 3 Intro|         opinion, for there is no such thing; but he may be cured of
 4 Intro|               expediency, or that the thing which seems is expedient
 5 Intro|                For example; we know a thing to be hard or soft by the
 6 Intro|              we know or do not know a thing (for the intermediate processes
 7 Intro|           time; we cannot confuse one thing which we do not know, with
 8 Intro|             do not know, with another thing which we do not know; nor
 9 Intro|               touch some one existing thing? For if he thinks about
10 Intro|          opinion;—I mean, may not one thing be supposed to be another?
11 Intro|          saying to yourself, that one thing is another. But did you
12 Intro|           that we can never think one thing to be another; for you must
13 Intro|           known. No one can think one thing to be another, when he has
14 Intro|          either that there is no such thing as false opinion, or that
15 Intro|              And as we cannot see one thing without at the same time
16 Intro|             which we have last seen a thing is often the best way of
17 Intro|             after a long interval the thing which we have seen once
18 Intro|               new knowledge, but as a thing to which we ourselves impart
19  Thea|              am asking for one simple thing.~THEAETETUS: What do you
20  Thea|              very trivial and obvious thing—for example, What is clay?
21  Thea|              light—there is no single thing or quality, but out of motion
22  Thea|           eyes, and is not a distinct thing which exists out of them.
23  Thea|             or affection of any other thing. The fact is that in our
24  Thea|             not whiteness but a white thing, whether wood or stone or
25  Thea|               meeting with some other thing is converted into a patient.
26  Thea|               is no one self-existent thing, but everything is becoming
27  Thea|                and offer you one good thing after another, that you
28  Thea|        something—there can be no such thing as perceiving and perceiving
29  Thea|          whether a person says that a thing is or becomes, he must say
30  Thea|             we say that we know every thing which we see and hear? for
31  Thea|            admit that there is such a thing as memory?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~
32  Thea|               and do not see the same thing at the same time.~THEAETETUS:
33  Thea|            distance, or know the same thing with more or less intensity,
34  Thea|        remember and not know the same thing, and the boy said No, because
35  Thea|            know and not know the same thing? Or, if he is afraid of
36  Thea|               opinion?~THEODORUS: The thing is incredible, Socrates.~
37  Thea|             to us to be true. And one thing which no one will deny is,
38  Thea|               of the name, but of the thing which is contemplated under
39  Thea|        company; tell me, then, when a thing changes from one place to
40  Thea|            kind of motion. But when a thing, remaining on the same spot,
41  Thea|              move in place, or is one thing moved in both ways, and
42  Thea|            objects, the one becomes a thing of a certain quality, and
43  Thea|             right: you may say that a thing is or is not thus; or, if
44  Thea|              have a knowledge of that thing?~THEAETETUS: He cannot.~
45  Thea|              knowing or not knowing a thing.~SOCRATES: That point being
46  Thea|             he knows to be some other thing which he knows, and knowing
47  Thea|           does not know as some other thing which he does not know;
48  Thea|                But if he sees any one thing, he sees something that
49  Thea|             He then who sees some one thing, sees something which is?~
50  Thea|              anything, hears some one thing, and hears that which is?~
51  Thea|            who thinks, think some one thing?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
52  Thea|            not he who thinks some one thing, think something which is?~
53  Thea|             which is, but he puts one thing in place of another; and
54  Thea|              other self-contradictory thing, which works, not according
55  Thea|               mind to conceive of one thing as another?~THEAETETUS:
56  Thea|            when any one thinks of one thing as another, he is saying
57  Thea|            saying to himself that one thing is another?~THEAETETUS:
58  Thea|            convince yourself that one thing is another? Nay, not even
59  Thea|           saying that you may learn a thing which at one time you did
60  Thea|               1) No one can think one thing to be another when he does
61  Thea|              can any mistaking of one thing for another occur, when
62  Thea|             nor can he think that one thing which he does not know is
63  Thea|              does not know is another thing which he does not know,
64  Thea|               knows; nor (2) that one thing which he perceives is another
65  Thea|               he perceives is another thing which he perceives, or that
66  Thea|            agree, can he think that a thing which he knows and perceives
67  Thea|              and perceives is another thing which he perceives; or that
68  Thea|               he perceives; or that a thing which he does not know and
69  Thea|                is the same as another thing which he does not know and
70  Thea|          again, can he suppose that a thing which he does not know and
71  Thea|       perceive is the same as another thing which he does not know;
72  Thea|              does not know; or that a thing which he does not know and
73  Thea|               not perceive is another thing which he does not perceive:—
74  Thea|              a mistake does think one thing which he knows to be another
75  Thea|          which he knows to be another thing which he knows; but this,
76  Thea|            know and not know the same thing at the same time.~THEAETETUS:
77  Thea|        suppose that we do a shameless thing?~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
78  Thea|             learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of
79  Thea|                not of this particular thing, but of some other;—when
80  Thea|             he should suppose another thing to be this, and this to
81  Thea|                and this to be another thing;—that, having knowledge
82  Thea|             knowledge, about the same thing.~SOCRATES: I cannot help
83  Thea|               we may stumble upon the thing which we are looking for;
84  Thea|              to speak of this or that thing by itself alone. It should
85  Thea|            and receive a reason for a thing, has no knowledge of that
86  Thea|              has no knowledge of that thing; but when he adds rational
87  Thea|              plural) is there not one thing which we express?~THEAETETUS:
88  Thea|             of anything is the entire thing?~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
89  Thea|             we not saying that when a thing has parts, all the parts
90  Thea|            giving the elements of the thing.~THEAETETUS: As for example,
91  Thea|               or thinks that the same thing is composed of different
92  Thea|               friend, there is such a thing as right opinion united
93  Thea|               which distinguishes the thing in question from all others.~
94  Thea| distinguishing characteristic of each thing, then, as many persons affirm,
95  Thea|        something differs from another thing, the proposal is ridiculous.~
96  Thea|     differences which distinguish one thing from another when we have