Dialogue

 1 Intro|      Amicitia), the interlocutory words are omitted.~Theaetetus,
 2 Intro|           acceptance of the noble words of Socrates, are noticeable
 3 Intro|          forgotten in the closing words. At the end of the dialogue,
 4 Intro|         of the sense in which his words are used. For later writers,
 5 Intro|      privately to his disciples,’—words which imply that the connexion
 6 Intro|    instant was to be found in his words. He is only indignant at
 7 Intro|     century before Christ, had no words for ‘subject’ and ‘object,’
 8 Intro|    convenience, the interlocutory words, “said I,” “said he”; and
 9 Intro|        same; the latter has these words—~“Ocean, whence the gods
10 Intro|           hear,—e.g. the sound of words or the sight of letters
11 Intro|            and in the soul by the words of the Sophist; and the
12 Intro|       Theseus mighty in deeds and words has broken my head; but
13 Intro|         insists on citing his own words,—‘What appears to each man
14 Intro|          asks Socrates, are these words reconcileable with the fact
15 Intro|          as ready to receive your words as I am, there would be
16 Intro|         that nice distinctions of words are sometimes pedantic,
17 Intro|         soul, as I may say in the words of Homer, who played upon
18 Intro|        Homer, who played upon the words ker and keros, may be smooth
19 Intro|           have been repeating the words ‘know,’ ‘understand,’ yet
20 Intro|          We may now examine these words, first, with reference to
21 Intro|           to give of these latter words is: ‘Things are to me as
22 Intro|    arguing from the common use of words, which ‘the vulgar pervert
23 Intro| degenerated into a mere strife of words. And when thus reduced to
24 Intro|         when thus reduced to mere words, they seem to have exercised
25 Intro|           them,’ a distinction of words which, as Socrates observes,
26 Intro|         of acquiring them, in the words ‘Knowledge consists not
27 Intro|       although mere expression in words is not truth. The second
28 Intro|   Socrates, that ‘distinctions of words, although sometimes pedantic,
29 Intro|          or hearing the sounds of words in a foreign language, and
30 Intro|          language.~A profusion of words and ideas has obscured rather
31 Intro|          remarks in the Cratylus, words expressive of motion as
32 Intro|        indifferently of both; the words intuition, moral sense,
33 Intro|         the other. And many other words used in early poetry or
34 Intro|         the mind at the thoughts, words, actions of ourselves and
35 Intro|  Knowledge of being or essence,’— words to which in our own day
36 Intro|    universal in one; or, in other words, a perception and also a
37 Intro|          synthesis of sensations, words, conceptions. In seeing
38 Intro|            And sometimes by using words as symbols we are able to
39 Intro|        pleasures of the body? The words ‘inward and outward,’ ‘active
40 Intro|          them without some use of words—some natural or latent logic—
41 Intro|           them are apt to be mere words. We are in a country which
42 Intro|        which the customary use of words has implanted in us. To
43 Intro|     elevated, and the use of many words has been transferred from
44 Intro|           the received meaning of words: they have regarded the
45 Intro|       science. We cannot say that words always correspond to facts.
46 Intro|        when there are two or more words describing faculties or
47 Intro|           may be described by the words, ‘I perceive,’ ‘I feel,’ ‘
48 Intro|         present to us; in Plato’s words, we set the stamp upon the
49 Intro|       series, objects lying near, words having a customary order
50 Intro|           it is least obscured by words, least liable to fall under
51  Thea|    convenience, the interlocutory words ‘I said,’ ‘I remarked,’
52  Thea|         will have to swear to his words; and we are perfectly sure
53  Thea|     delivery. And the proof of my words is, that many of them in
54  Thea|         to avoid entanglements of words. But, O my good sir, he
55  Thea|           beg you not to press my words in the letter, but to take
56  Thea|           sophist accomplishes by words the change which the physician
57  Thea|        customary use of names and words, which the vulgar pervert
58  Thea|         many a Theseus, mighty in words, has broken my head; nevertheless
59  Thea|       statement and in the fewest words possible, the basis of agreement.~
60  Thea|        SOCRATES: In this way:—His words are, ‘What seems to a man,
61  Thea|            caring not whether his words are many or few; his only
62  Thea|       lost, and stammering broken words, is laughed at, not by Thracian
63  Thea|          me, of the truth of your words, there would be more peace
64  Thea|       after-time; which, in other words, is the future.~THEODORUS:
65  Thea|         not then hamper them with words expressive of rest.~THEODORUS:
66  Thea|           doctrine have as yet no words in which to express themselves,
67  Thea|         we may not understand his words, and may be still further
68  Thea|         SOCRATES: The free use of words and phrases, rather than
69  Thea|         other’ are the same (Both words in Greek are called eteron:
70  Thea|        times have we repeated the words ‘we know,’ and ‘do not know,’
71  Thea|           moment we are using the words ‘we understand,’ ‘we are
72  Thea|           possession’ in the same words? I will make my meaning
73  Thea|        one may twist and turn the words ‘knowing’ and ‘learning’
74  Thea|        beg you to reconsider your words. Let us grant what you say—
75  Thea|     rightly attribute to them the words ‘being’ or ‘this,’ because
76  Thea|           alien and inappropriate words, and for this reason the