Dialogue

 1 Intro|      Sophist may be regarded as the answer to the problems about One
 2 Intro|      Socrates’ game of question and answer, and prefers the digressions
 3 Intro|            that which he knows?’ No answer is given to this not unanswerable
 4 Intro|          What then is knowledge? We answer (3), ‘True opinion, with
 5 Intro|             of the work renders the answer to both these questions
 6 Intro|       possible source from which an answer to these questions can be
 7 Intro|        dialogue a great part of the answer of Protagoras is just and
 8 Intro|             to the rest) to find an answer. Without further preface,
 9 Intro|             Theodorus is too old to answer questions, and begs him
10 Intro|         Socrates rejoins, that this answer contains too much and also
11 Intro|            God you will discover an answer.’ ‘My answer is, that knowledge
12 Intro|            discover an answer.’ ‘My answer is, that knowledge is perception.’ ‘
13 Intro|             contradicting my former answer.’~‘And if you say “Yes,”
14 Intro|     objection, I will now state the answer. Protagoras would deny the
15 Intro|         therefore I will leave that answer and ask another question:
16 Intro|               he will say, ‘with an answer which I should not have
17 Intro|        foolish. How will Protagoras answer this argument? For he cannot
18 Intro|     personal, when he is abused, in answer to his adversaries (for
19 Intro|             question, they will not answer, but dart at you some unintelligible
20 Intro|         does he perceive? The first answer is, that he perceives sights
21 Intro|          things? Let us try another answer in the sphere of being: ‘
22 Intro|          carried on in question and answer, until she no longer doubts,
23 Intro|          sense. We of course should answer at once: ‘No; the alternative
24 Intro|             opinion, Theaetetus, in answer to Socrates, proceeds to
25 Intro|       different from the parts? The answer of experience is that they
26 Intro| characteristic mark, which seems to answer to the logical definition
27 Intro|             knowledge, in which the answer to the whole discussion
28 Intro|        which a man utters being the answer to some other word spoken
29  Thea|              or ‘disagreed,’ in the answer, lest the repetition of
30  Thea|             investigating. Will you answer me a question: ‘Is not learning
31  Thea|           What is knowledge? Can we answer that question? What say
32  Thea|           your game of question and answer, and I am too old to learn;
33  Thea|              Well, Socrates, I will answer as you and he bid me; and
34  Thea|         brick-makers; would not the answer be ridiculous?~THEAETETUS:
35  Thea|           would understand from our answer the nature of ‘clay,’ merely
36  Thea|            knowledge is, to give in answer the name of some art or
37  Thea|        SOCRATES: Moreover, he might answer shortly and simply, but
38  Thea|     Socrates, to give you a similar answer about knowledge, which is
39  Thea|    beginning just now; let your own answer about roots be your model,
40  Thea|          that I have a satisfactory answer to give, nor hear of any
41  Thea|             and have not the wit to answer them myself, is very just—
42  Thea|        midwife, and do your best to answer the questions which I will
43  Thea|           increasing, how would you answer him, Theaetetus?~THEAETETUS:
44  Thea|             contradicting my former answer.~SOCRATES: Capital! excellent!
45  Thea|           keep up your spirits, and answer like a man what you think.~
46  Thea|              that I have nothing to answer, because you rebuked me
47  Thea|           my meaning.~THEAETETUS: I answer, they are unlike.~SOCRATES:
48  Thea|      Theaetetus again; he seemed to answer very nicely.~SOCRATES: If
49  Thea|             us, and let the younger answer; he will incur less disgrace
50  Thea|             THEODORUS: How shall we answer, Theaetetus?~THEAETETUS:
51  Thea|            has closed, how will you answer the inevitable man?~THEAETETUS:
52  Thea|           man?~THEAETETUS: I should answer, ‘Not with that eye but
53  Thea|             I do not ask or bid you answer in what sense you know,
54  Thea|     reinforce his position? Shall I answer for him?~THEAETETUS: By
55  Thea|            seriousness, and ask and answer one another, for you see
56  Thea|          nothing personal to say in answer to the civilities of his
57  Thea|       Indeed, I do not know what to answer; but I think they would
58  Thea|              we corrected our first answer in our eagerness to prove
59  Thea|           nothing is at rest, every answer upon whatever subject is
60  Thea|        faith, but should prepare to answer Socrates in the remainder
61  Thea|            but ask him, and he will answer.~SOCRATES: Nevertheless,
62  Thea|              and I believe that the answer which you have just given
63  Thea|             had better allow you to answer for yourself and not interfere.
64  Thea|          Indeed, Socrates, I cannot answer; my only notion is, that
65  Thea|           way in which you ought to answer, Theaetetus, and not in
66  Thea|           else? And suppose that we answer, ‘Yes, he can, when he thinks
67  Thea|             true.’—That will be our answer?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
68  Thea|           for I do not know what to answer if any one were to ask me:—
69  Thea|         only thought: How would you answer him?~THEAETETUS: I should
70  Thea|            when added together, and answer that they are eleven, while
71  Thea|              but, as you like me to answer at once, I shall hazard
72  Thea|             equally approve of your answer.~THEAETETUS: Yes; the answer
73  Thea|        answer.~THEAETETUS: Yes; the answer is the point.~SOCRATES:
74  Thea|      anything, he should be able to answer his questioner by giving
75  Thea|             we should be content to answer, that a waggon consists
76  Thea|             this fair argument will answer ‘Right opinion with knowledge,’—