Dialogue

 1 Intro|        the problems about One and Being which have been raised in
 2 Intro|          universal conceptions of being, likeness, sameness, number,
 3 Intro|    Platonic Ideas and the Eleatic Being, but all abstractions seemed
 4 Intro|      theory of rest or motion, or Being or atoms, but rather a philosophy
 5 Intro|        the universal principle of Being and the multitudinous principle
 6 Intro|           met Theaetetus, who was being carried up from the army
 7 Intro|         perception, coincide with being. I suspect, however, that
 8 Intro|         flux and generation, not “being,” as we ignorantly affirm,
 9 Intro|           you discourse about man being reduced to the level of
10 Intro|        Well, the doctrine is old, being derived from the poets,
11 Intro|         not be forgotten:—~‘Alone being remains unmoved which is
12 Intro|        soul perceives by herself. Being is the most universal of
13 Intro|         perception does not reach being, and therefore fails of
14 Intro|          occupied by herself with being, is said to have opinion—
15 Intro|           answer in the sphere of being: ‘When a man thinks, and
16 Intro|       falsely. And so the path of being is closed against us, as
17 Intro|          The Eleatic isolation of Being and the Megarian or Cynic
18 Intro|           the further accident of being dependent for his knowledge
19 Intro|       they are avowed, instead of being veiled, as in modern times,
20 Intro|         abstract notions, such as Being and Not-being, sameness
21 Intro|      Ideas as well as the Eleatic Being and the individualism of
22 Intro|       doxa was full of ambiguity, being sometimes, as in the Eleatic
23 Intro|          gains her conceptions of Being, sameness, number, and the
24 Intro|           flower, a tree, a human being. They may be conceived as
25 Intro|         imperceptibly from one or Being to mind and thought. Appearance
26 Intro|    philosophy to be ‘Knowledge of being or essence,’— words to which
27 Intro|        necessary existence to us. Being the simplest of our ideas,
28 Intro|          space. The conception of being is more general than either,
29 Intro|         into the knowledge of our being; and yet, like many other
30 Intro|           nature, man is a social being, who is always being educated
31 Intro|       social being, who is always being educated by language, habit,
32 Intro|          of their true nature not being perceived. They are veiled
33 Intro| continuity, which though far from being its highest determination,
34 Intro|       confined to sense is always being brought back from the higher
35 Intro|           common use of language, being neither able to win acceptance
36 Intro|   primitive conceptions of unity, being, rest, motion, and the like.
37 Intro|  observation of external actions, being the actions not only of
38 Intro|       very language which it uses being the result of the instincts
39 Intro|           word which a man utters being the answer to some other
40 Intro|         this higher aspect of his being he grasps the ideas of God,
41  Thea|           I met Theaetetus—he was being carried up to Athens from
42  Thea|        reason of this latter name being, that they are commensurable
43  Thea|        because they are afraid of being called procuresses, which
44  Thea|           by evil communications, being fonder of lies and shams
45  Thea|          always of existence, and being the same as knowledge is
46  Thea|          by us incorrectly called being, but is really becoming,
47  Thea|          source of what is called being and becoming, and inactivity
48  Thea|        absolute existence, but as being all of them of whatever
49  Thea|     becoming and in relation; and being must be altogether abolished,
50  Thea|          of nature all things are being created and destroyed, coming
51  Thea|        and destroyed, coming into being and passing into new forms;
52  Thea|         perception is true to me, being inseparable from my own
53  Thea|           inseparable from my own being; and, as Protagoras says,
54  Thea|        trips in the conception of being or becoming, can I fail
55  Thea|           about the reason of man being degraded to the level of
56  Thea|   Socrates, will not easily avoid being drawn into an argument;
57  Thea|           the truth of Protagoras being doubted by all, will be
58  Thea| sheepishness; and when others are being praised and glorified, in
59  Thea|     strange experience to him, he being dismayed, and lost, and
60  Thea|        whether I would or not, of being a measure of anything.~THEODORUS:
61  Thea|       doctrine, Theodorus,~‘Alone Being remains unmoved, which is
62  Thea|         stoutly maintain that all being is one and self-contained,
63  Thea|        old, or becomes black from being white, or hard from being
64  Thea|         being white, or hard from being soft, or undergoes any other
65  Thea|         as those which are called being and not-being, and those
66  Thea|   THEAETETUS: You are thinking of being and not being, likeness
67  Thea|         thinking of being and not being, likeness and unlikeness,
68  Thea|   beautiful and good. And besides being beautiful, you have done
69  Thea|       which class would you refer being or essence; for this, of
70  Thea|          their reflections on the being and use of them are slowly
71  Thea|      truth who fails of attaining being?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~
72  Thea|        mere impression, truth and being can be attained?~THEAETETUS:
73  Thea|        seeing, hearing, smelling, being cold and being hot?~THEAETETUS:
74  Thea|          smelling, being cold and being hot?~THEAETETUS: I should
75  Thea|         of truth any more than of being?~THEAETETUS: Certainly not.~
76  Thea|         is alone and engaged with being.~THEAETETUS: You mean, Socrates,
77  Thea|       thing.~SOCRATES: That point being now determined, must we
78  Thea|         not knowing, into that of being and not-being.~THEAETETUS:
79  Thea|           either in the sphere of being or of knowledge?~THEAETETUS:
80  Thea|       Kerh Kerhos); these, I say, being pure and clear, and having
81  Thea|            SOCRATES: I could not, being the man I am. The case would
82  Thea|      attribute to them the words ‘being’ or ‘this,’ because they