Dialogue

 1 Intro|            ANALYSIS~Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character
 2 Intro|               connexion, indicated by Plato himself at the end of the
 3 Intro|         explained by the residence of Plato at Megara. Socrates disclaims
 4 Intro|        written earlier than 390, when Plato was about thirty-nine years
 5 Intro|             retain the order in which Plato himself has arranged this
 6 Intro|           reference to other works of Plato, that the Theaetetus may
 7 Intro|               views to the student of Plato; none of them can lay claim
 8 Intro|             the narrated dialogues of Plato, and is the only one which
 9 Intro|               been a spot familiar to Plato (for Megara was within a
10 Intro|               Yet we may observe that Plato has himself forgotten this,
11 Intro|             is made of the device. As Plato himself remarks, who in
12 Intro|              on the mention of him in Plato. According to a confused
13 Intro|              of Socrates, and then of Plato, he is said to have written
14 Intro|              division of roots, which Plato attributes to him, and the
15 Intro|        uncertain how far he can trust Plato’s account of the theory
16 Intro|           what parts of the dialogue, Plato is expressing his own opinion.
17 Intro|            mixed up the Protagoras of Plato, as they have the Socrates
18 Intro|             they have the Socrates of Plato, with the real person.~Returning
19 Intro|         obtained, we may remark, that Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras
20 Intro|             discovered or invented by Plato. On the other hand, the
21 Intro|       question may be raised, how far Plato in the Theaetetus could
22 Intro|         criticizing the Protagoras of Plato, and not attempting to draw
23 Intro|            sentiments and those which Plato has attributed to him.~2.
24 Intro|          seemed quite as untenable to Plato as to a modern writer. In
25 Intro|              is really a criticism of Plato on himself and his own criticism
26 Intro|          character of the writings of Plato. There are two, or more,
27 Intro|            For we cannot suppose that Plato conceived a definition of
28 Intro|         accomplished.~The writings of Plato belong to an age in which
29 Intro|        Eristic. The contemporaries of Plato and Socrates were vainly
30 Intro|              the eyes of Socrates and Plato. And besides these, we find
31 Intro|              in the later writings of Plato, especially in the Theaetetus,
32 Intro|             to these persons, in whom Plato may perhaps have blended
33 Intro|            and defined. In the age of Plato, the limits of the world
34 Intro|               nature of the universe.~Plato, in his Theaetetus, gathers
35 Intro|         thought. To such a philosophy Plato, in the Theaetetus, offers
36 Intro|         sensible perception, by which Plato seems to mean the generalized
37 Intro|           placed in the same class by Plato (Soph.); and the same principle
38 Intro|       regarded as the Materialists of Plato, denied the reality of sensation.
39 Intro|           sensation’ is identified by Plato with the Protagorean thesis
40 Intro|               and convenient phrases.~Plato appears to treat Protagoras
41 Intro|               by Aristotle as well as Plato with the flux of Heracleitus.
42 Intro|           Aristotle is only following Plato, and Plato, as we have already
43 Intro|             only following Plato, and Plato, as we have already seen,
44 Intro|              remember throughout that Plato is not speaking of Heracleitus,
45 Intro|    Heracleitus which at all justifies Plato’s account of him. His philosophy
46 Intro|           sensible perception such as Plato attributes to him; nor is
47 Intro| Heracliteanism was sunk in the age of Plato. He never said that ‘change
48 Intro|          great philosophers, and with Plato and Aristotle themselves,
49 Intro|              of sense. In this manner Plato describes the process of
50 Intro|             of reflection and reason. Plato attempts to clear up this
51 Intro|               opinion is explained by Plato at first as a confusion
52 Intro|               all forms of error; and Plato has excluded himself from
53 Intro|              anywhere and everywhere. Plato discards both figures, as
54 Intro|       persuading another who has not. Plato would have done better if
55 Intro|          would be impossible. And has Plato kept altogether clear of
56 Intro|               terms to a proposition.~Plato, in the spirit of the Megarian
57 Intro|            which is not recognized by Plato; viz. that truth and thought
58 Intro|               certainty of knowledge. Plato does not mention the greater
59 Intro|            philosophers in the age of Plato thought of science only
60 Intro|          structure can begin to rise. Plato saw the necessity of combating
61 Intro|            like. It is remarkable how Plato in the Theaetetus, after
62 Intro|              of points or moments. As Plato remarks in the Cratylus,
63 Intro|           this is the way along which Plato is leading us in his later
64 Intro|               of Aristotle as well as Plato, and the reality to which
65 Intro|              For Aristotle as well as Plato would in modern phraseology
66 Intro|             meaning.~Yet, in spite of Plato and his followers, mankind
67 Intro|            the doctrine attributed by Plato to Protagoras, that the
68 Intro|           follows, first of all, like Plato in the Theaetetus, to analyse
69 Intro|      impression, sugkechumenon ti, as Plato says (Republic), until number
70 Intro|           Aristotle (partly following Plato) supposes God to be the
71 Intro|          place’ or ‘the infinite.’ To Plato, in the Timaeus, it is known
72 Intro|             been as unintelligible to Plato as his a priori synthetical
73 Intro|        illusion, we may well ask with Plato, ‘What becomes of the mind?’~
74 Intro|             one instant. But then, as Plato asks,—and we must repeat
75 Intro|          opinions of the world; it is Plato who rises above them: the
76 Intro|             pote epistemen genesthai; Plato Republic.~Monon gar auto
77 Intro|           points in the Theaetetus of Plato,—the oldest work on Psychology
78 Intro|         thought. In the Theaetetus of Plato it has not yet become fixed:
79 Intro|              was a minute ago, is, as Plato implies in the Theaetetus,
80 Intro|             these, in the language of Plato, ‘we shamelessly use, without
81 Intro|             already present to us; in Plato’s words, we set the stamp