Dialogue

 1 Intro|             Sophist supplements the question of false opinion which is
 2 Intro|          enthusiasm about the great question. Like a youth, he has not
 3 Intro|             learn Socrates’ game of question and answer, and prefers
 4 Intro|        spirit within us revives the question, which has been already
 5 Intro|            to this not unanswerable question. The comparison of the mind
 6 Intro|            be ‘really too bad.’~The question may be raised, how far Plato
 7 Intro|             one view or aspect of a question is made to predominate over
 8 Intro|       approaching and surrounding a question. The lights which he throws
 9 Intro|           always hovering about the question involved in them. The analysis
10 Intro|             and now he has a little question to which he wants Theaetetus
11 Intro|         Theaetetus, I repeat my old question—“What is knowledge?” Take
12 Intro|       similar examples?—that is the question.’ ‘I am often perplexed
13 Intro|           induced by him to put the question in a new form. He proceeds
14 Intro|         that answer and ask another question: Is not seeing perceiving?’ ‘
15 Intro|           call, we must examine the question for ourselves. It is clear
16 Intro|          one. But this begins a new question. ‘Well, Socrates, we have
17 Intro|            if you ask any of them a question, they will not answer, but
18 Intro|              which is carried on in question and answer, until she no
19 Intro|           whereas the difficulty in question naturally arises owing to
20 Intro|           as not really solving the question which to us appears so simple: ‘
21 Intro|           becomes distinctness is a question of degree which cannot be
22 Intro|             mind or out of it, is a question which has no meaning. We
23 Intro|         them, is (like the parallel question about space) unmeaning.
24 Intro|        other persons.~2. The second question, namely, that concerning
25 Intro|              and we must repeat the question,—What becomes of the mind?
26 Intro|           be several answers to the question, Why the theory that all
27 Intro|             satisfy some unanswered question or is based upon some ancient
28 Intro|     education. But this is the real question. We cannot pursue the mind
29  Thea| investigating. Will you answer me a question: ‘Is not learning growing
30  Thea|       knowledge? Can we answer that question? What say you? which of
31  Thea|           am unused to your game of question and answer, and I am too
32  Thea|             was not the point of my question: we wanted to know not the
33  Thea|      assuming that he who asked the question would understand from our
34  Thea|      science is ridiculous; for the question is, ‘What is knowledge?’
35  Thea|           difficulty as you put the question. You mean, if I am not mistaken,
36  Thea|         Theaetetus, I repeat my old question, ‘What is knowledge?’—and
37  Thea|           in reference to this last question, and if I were not afraid
38  Thea|        SOCRATES: Do you see another question which can be raised about
39  Thea|            waking?~THEAETETUS: What question?~SOCRATES: A question which
40  Thea|          What question?~SOCRATES: A question which I think that you must
41  Thea|              Certainly, putting the question as you do, that which is
42  Thea|             way of putting a simple question, which is only, whether
43  Thea|       myself: just now we asked the question, whether a man who had learned
44  Thea|            now let me ask the awful question, which is this:—Can a man
45  Thea|       Protagoras. Here arises a new question, Theodorus, which threatens
46  Thea|            would not touch the real question—it would be a mockery, would
47  Thea|           recognised, if we put the question in reference to the whole
48  Thea|             one of his disciples, a question:—O, Protagoras, we will
49  Thea|           Theodorus, to examine the question from the foundation as it
50  Thea|      dwelling upon an argument or a question, and quietly asking and
51  Thea|            If you ask any of them a question, he will produce, as from
52  Thea|        their will; we must take the question out of their hands, and
53  Thea|            motion appears to be the question with which we begin. What
54  Thea|         forget to ask them the only question with which we are concerned:
55  Thea|            let them in—besides, the question which is now stirring is
56  Thea|            into the shade the other question of knowledge. Neither the
57  Thea|          faculty would consider the question. It would not be sight or
58  Thea|           whether I shall leave the question, or begin over again in
59  Thea|      nothing to do with our present question.~THEAETETUS: There can be
60  Thea|          Suppose that we remove the question out of the sphere of knowing
61  Thea|           arguing on all sides of a question; whose dulness cannot be
62  Thea|          for them lose sight of the question before us, which is the
63  Thea|          distinguishes the thing in question from all others.~THEAETETUS:
64  Thea|             now, when you asked the question?~SOCRATES: If, my boy, the
65  Thea|          SOCRATES: And so, when the question is asked, What is knowledge?