Dialogue

 1 Intro|         to break down. The first syllable of Socrates’ name is SO.
 2 Intro|          We may suppose that the syllable has a separate form or idea
 3 Intro|     explanation. But how can the syllable be known if the letter remains
 4 Intro|       other hand he may know the syllable ‘The’ in the name Theaetetus,
 5 Intro|          mistaken about the same syllable in the name Theodorus, and
 6 Intro|         relation of letters to a syllable, and of the terms to a proposition.~
 7  Thea|      asks you to spell the first syllable of my name:—Theaetetus,
 8  Thea|      which you would give of the syllable?~THEAETETUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
 9  Thea|    SOCRATES: And do we mean by a syllable two letters, or if there
10  Thea|          O, which form the first syllable of my own name; must not
11  Thea|        must not he who knows the syllable, know both of them?~THEAETETUS:
12  Thea|        if he is ever to know the syllable, he must know the letters
13  Thea|        to have maintained that a syllable is not the letters, but
14  Thea|          as we now say, that the syllable is a simple form arising
15  Thea|   alternative be that either the syllable is not the letters, and
16  Thea|     letters are not parts of the syllable, or that the syllable will
17  Thea|        the syllable, or that the syllable will be the same with the
18  Thea|          existence of parts in a syllable, it would be ridiculous
19  Thea| according to our present view, a syllable must surely be some indivisible
20  Thea|        SOCRATES: Then is not the syllable in the same case as the
21  Thea|      sure.~SOCRATES: If, then, a syllable is a whole, and has many
22  Thea|       the letters as well as the syllable must be intelligible and
23  Thea|         of him who says that the syllable can be known and expressed,
24  Thea|        if some one says that the syllable is known and the letter