Dialogue

 1 Intro|          further heard that the first elements are names only, and that
 2 Intro|               they are those original elements of which there is no explanation.
 3 Intro|                the enumeration of the elements of which anything is composed.
 4 Intro|            and the enumeration of the elements, viz. (3) perception of
 5 Intro|              may be resolved into two elements—first, change, secondly,
 6 Intro|               a poet, he surveyed the elements of mythology, nature, thought,
 7 Intro|               with a proposition.~The elements may be perceived by sense,
 8 Intro|            use of the analogous term ‘elements,’ or ‘letters’? For there
 9 Intro|          compound of which the simple elements are unknown to us? Can two
10 Intro|            unable to analyze into its elements; and all the parts, when
11 Intro|             different from the simple elements. But ancient philosophy
12 Intro|              various degrees, and the elements of imagination, if, as appears
13 Intro|         return again to the ‘beggarly elements’ of ancient scepticism,
14 Intro|            attempt to gather up these elements in a single system, we discover
15 Intro|            They have thought that the elements of plurality and unity have
16 Intro|                must always remain the elements from which the science or
17 Intro|              the higher and the lower elements of human nature, and not
18 Intro| investigations of the microscope. The elements of Psychology can still
19  Thea|               quicker; and the slower elements have their motions in the
20  Thea|               the primeval letters or elements out of which you and I and
21  Thea|           them; whereas, if the first elements could be described, and
22  Thea|            But none of these primeval elements can be defined; they can
23  Thea|           definition. Thus, then, the elements or letters are only objects
24  Thea|               notion of all:—That the elements or letters are unknown,
25  Thea|               one, Socrates, tell the elements of an element? I can only
26  Thea|            combinations of harmonious elements—of letters or of any other
27  Thea|               letters or of any other elements.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
28  Thea|          statement, that of the first elements out of which all other things
29  Thea|            this reason the letters or elements were indefinable and unknown?~
30  Thea|               in the same case as the elements or letters, if it has no
31  Thea|              one would allow, are the elements or letters of music?~THEAETETUS:
32  Thea|            that the letters or simple elements as a class are much more
33  Thea|              questioner by giving the elements of the thing.~THEAETETUS:
34  Thea|              is an enumeration of the elements out of which anything is
35  Thea|              to the whole through the elements.~THEAETETUS: And do you
36  Thea|              of all things into their elements to be a rational explanation
37  Thea|              is composed of different elements at different times?~THEAETETUS:
38  Thea|              by an enumeration of the elements. But what is the third definition?~