Dialogue

   1 Intro|            into square numbers, 4, 9, 16, etc., which are composed
   2 Intro|             which has been suggested, 369, when the Athenians and
   3 Intro|            war, between the years 390-387. The later date which has
   4 Intro|              political, or religious; 3rdly, Because it deprives us
   5 Intro|              oblong numbers, 3, 5, 6, 7, etc., which are composed
   6 Intro|               into square numbers, 4, 9, 16, etc., which are composed
   7  Thea|              being must be altogether abolished, although from habit and
   8 Intro|               that they have produced abortions; or when I have delivered
   9  Thea|          human things, is ‘flying all abroad’ as Pindar says, measuring
  10 Intro|          dialogue is confirmed by the absence of the doctrine of recollection
  11  Thea|              has been completed, I am absolved from answering; for this
  12 Intro|             mind may enter into or be abstracted from the operations of sense,
  13  Thea|             shall be driven into many absurdities.~THEAETETUS: What are they?~
  14  Thea|               argument? Do not let us abuse the freedom of digression
  15 Intro|         anything personal, when he is abused, in answer to his adversaries (
  16 Intro|            asking ‘What is truth?’ it accepts the ‘blind witness of eyes
  17 Intro|        thought or recollection either accidentally or naturally associated
  18 Intro|           that Socrates, with all his accidents, is spoken of. The wine
  19 Intro|          philosophy lies in the ready accommodation of it to the minds of men;
  20  Thea|             effected, and the sophist accomplishes by words the change which
  21  Thea|             knowledge of him does not accord with perception—that was
  22 Intro|               Republic, Sophist), and accords with the ironical spirit
  23  Thea|       considering those whom we first accosted, ‘the river-gods,’ and,
  24 Intro|             greatly enlarged and more accurately defined man’s knowledge
  25  Thea|            not here, and some one may accuse us of speaking without authority
  26  Thea|       geometry, would not be worth an ace.~THEAETETUS: But neither
  27  Thea|           birth would be the crowning achievement of the art of midwifery—
  28  Thea|               of the joke is, that he acknowledges the truth of their opinion
  29 Intro|            and simplest manner. While acknowledging that language has been the
  30 Intro|              describes the process of acquiring them, in the words ‘Knowledge
  31      | across
  32  Thea|               did not perceive that I acted from goodwill, not knowing
  33 Intro|                by the greater or less acuteness of the angle which the rays
  34  Thea|              this distinction, let us address ourselves to those who say
  35 Intro|              the body seems always to adhere to our thoughts about ourselves,
  36 Intro|              unity have not been duly adjusted. The tendency of such writers
  37  Thea|              is afraid of making this admission, would he ever grant that
  38 Intro|               not responsible for the admissions which were made by a boy,
  39  Thea|            which must, as we said, be adopted by him who maintains knowledge
  40 Intro|   aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton. Soph.~Since the above essay
  41  Thea|           with all these people; for, advancing step by step, we have imperceptibly
  42  Thea|              we shall gain one of two advantages; either we shall find what
  43  Thea|              with Theaetetus, I would advise you to go on with him and
  44  Thea|              although I entreated and advised him to remain, he would
  45  Thea|             nor can that object which affects me, meeting another subject,
  46  Thea|             phraseology is termed the affidavit, is recited at the time:
  47 Intro|               help which I am able to afford to your friend; had he been
  48  Thea|             said, was impossible, and afforded an irresistible proof of
  49 Intro|       enclosure is also remarkable as affording the first hint of universal
  50  Thea|              you should ever conceive afresh, you will be all the better
  51  Thea|           that they will be useful in after-time; which, in other words,
  52 Intro|               this from the invisible agencies by which it reaches the
  53 Intro|           mode of effecting it, while agreeing with Socrates and the Cynics
  54  Thea|           inferred from his writings, agrees that this opinion is also
  55  Thea|            draws the other into upper air, and gets him out of his
  56 Intro|            time, but, like numbers or algebraical symbols, are used as signs
  57 Intro|               first hint of universal all-pervading ideas,—a notion further
  58  Thea|              is able to arouse and to allay in those who consort with
  59 Intro|     philosophy of experience forms an alliance with ancient scepticism.~
  60  Thea|           THEAETETUS: To what are you alluding?~SOCRATES: There is a point
  61  Thea|           name of the Graces, what an almighty wise man Protagoras must
  62  Thea|       ignorance. For he does not hold aloof in order that he may gain
  63  Thea|           oneself and in silence, not aloud or to another: What think
  64 Intro|            nature of testimony is not altered, nor the verification of
  65 Intro|             power of abstractions and alternatives, and show how far rest and
  66 Intro|           Protagoras would never have amassed a fortune if every man could
  67 Intro|             as in modern times, under ambiguous and convenient phrases.~
  68 Intro|      comprehensive vision. This is an ambitious study, of which most of
  69 Intro|               opponent darts from his ambush, and transfers to knowledge
  70  Thea|         THEAETETUS: And how would you amend the former statement?~SOCRATES:
  71 Intro|         animalized: or he is to be an amiable sceptic, better than his
  72 Intro|             is imitated by Cicero (De Amicitia), the interlocutory words
  73  Thea|           much such and such a number amounts to?~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
  74  Thea|               fiftieth, and so on? He amuses himself with the notion
  75 Intro|          methods of science and their analogies are new faculties, discovered
  76 Intro|           Plato in the Theaetetus, to analyse sensation, and secondly
  77 Intro|            how they meet the mind; it analyzes the transition from sense
  78 Intro|     Konigsberg supposed himself to be analyzing a necessary mode of thought:
  79  Thea|         Amphitryon had a twenty-fifth ancestor, who might have been anybody,
  80 Intro|              and delighted to imagine angels and spirits wandering through
  81 Intro|              or less acuteness of the angle which the rays of sight
  82 Intro|           ancients,’ as Aristotle (De Anim.) says, citing a verse of
  83 Intro|            rationalized, secularized, animalized: or he is to be an amiable
  84  Thea|              his companions have been anointing themselves in the outer
  85  Thea|              gloss omomoch e de thren anomotos.)~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
  86 Intro|            faculties and virtues, the antagonism of the appetites and the
  87 Intro|               in this world to be the antagonist of good, out of the way
  88  Thea|             remain something which is antagonistic to good. Having no place
  89 Intro|              of sense from its mental antecedent, or any mental energy from
  90 Intro|            faculties is in reality an anticipation. For simultaneous with their
  91 Intro|               or if he is told of the antiquity of a family, he remembers
  92  Thea|         cannot shake off a feeling of anxiety.~SOCRATES: These are the
  93 Intro|              Theodorus. He is himself anxious to learn anything of anybody;
  94 Intro|             after a while they “round apace,” if the gods are propitious
  95 Intro|            aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton. Soph.~Since the
  96 Intro|              legeiv, osper gumnon kai aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton.
  97 Intro|               us is that they are the apertures of the mind, doors and windows
  98 Intro|               gumnon kai aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton.
  99 Intro|         preface, but at the same time apologizing for his eagerness, he asks, ‘
 100 Intro|         enthusiasts and idealists, of apostles and martyrs. The leaders
 101 Intro|         speaks to us of the wonderful apparatus of nerves, muscles, tissues,
 102 Intro|               practice of mankind. It appeals to principles which they
 103 Intro|                 In this postscript or appendix we propose to treat, first,
 104 Intro|         knowledge to which Protagoras applies the term. Theodorus justly
 105  Thea|          known and expressed, and are apprehended by true opinion. When, therefore,
 106  Thea|               have to suppose that he apprehends that which is not in his
 107  Thea|             for he has a quickness of apprehension which is almost unrivalled,
 108 Intro|           their hands’; and cannot be approached in argument, because they
 109  Thea|            will not allow any one who approaches you to depart until you
 110 Intro|      movements of the world have been appropriated by the multitude and found
 111  Thea|             while ago we admitted and approved the statement, that of the
 112 Intro|              experienced eye to judge approximately of their relations and distance,
 113  Thea|         within, become changed by any approximation or affection of any other
 114 Intro|             towards idealism, and any arbitrary inversion of our ordinary
 115 Intro|           LIMITS Of PSYCHOLOGY.~O gar arche men o me oide, teleute de
 116  Thea|   corresponding sensation; like a bad archer, I miss and fall wide of
 117  Thea|              me; let us assume, as he argues, that this is true to you.
 118  Thea|             can he hymn the true life aright which is lived by immortals
 119  Thea|              them, to be great fools. Aristeides, the son of Lysimachus,
 120 Intro|             have rebelled against the Aristotelian point of view. Of these
 121  Thea|            and even numbers and other arithmetical conceptions.~SOCRATES: You
 122 Intro|               is like saying that the arm of the workman is stronger
 123 Intro|               to act upon them and to arrange them in various ways. Besides
 124 Intro|              Parmenides. Any of these arrangements may suggest new views to
 125 Intro|          leading thought suggests and arranges a world of particulars.
 126 Intro|             designedly held back from arriving at a conclusion. For we
 127  Thea|               this is said to be that Artemis—the goddess of childbirth—
 128 Intro|              sense the differences of articulate speech and of musical notes?
 129 Intro|           which are involved in it by ascending to a time in which they
 130  Thea|              you, but do your best to ascertain the true nature of knowledge,
 131 Intro|             importance which is to be ascribed to either element. For the
 132  Thea|             he is also caught when he ascribes truth to the opinions of
 133 Intro|             same time. When reason is asleep the lower part of the mind
 134 Intro|            with their own visions and aspirations; but they have done that
 135  Thea|             that class which the soul aspires to know of herself.~SOCRATES:
 136 Intro|            fly but cannot: instead of aspiring towards perfection, ‘it
 137  Thea|      knowledge, he would have made an assault upon hearing, smelling,
 138  Thea|                or any other political assembly; they neither see nor hear
 139 Intro|      conscious of them, have often no assignable place in the human frame.
 140 Intro|             these or the admixture or assimilation of them in various degrees.
 141 Intro|             both at times require the assistance of midwives. And he, Socrates,
 142 Intro|            perhaps because it is more assisted by association. We have
 143 Intro|            again the analogy of space assists us in conceiving of them
 144 Intro|              mind (Theaet.), or which assumes the existence of ideas independent
 145 Intro|      correctness of which they had no assurance and which at best were only
 146  Thea|                SOCRATES: And is he an astronomer and calculator and musician,
 147 Intro|              suggested, 369, when the Athenians and Lacedaemonians disputed
 148  Thea|             and the ridicule will not attach to us. On the other hand,
 149 Intro|               the importance which he attaches to practical life, he is
 150 Intro|            will not discourage him by attacking the paradoxical expression ‘
 151  Thea|               of a waggon, in that he attains to the whole through the
 152  Thea|             best of all—have you ever attempted to convince yourself that
 153 Intro|           fever, as the physician who attended him? And if they differ
 154 Intro|               seems to arise from not attending to the dramatic character
 155  Thea|            able to conceive and bear, attends other women, but only those
 156 Intro|             sensation presented great attraction to the ancient thinker.
 157  Thea|               that he has no personal attractions, I may freely say, that
 158 Intro|             of inductive science.~The attractiveness of such speculations arises
 159  Thea|             further go, nor do I know aught of the things which great
 160 Intro|             and having guaranteed the authenticity of the dialogue (compare
 161 Intro|  characteristic of his best period of authorship. The vain search, the negative
 162 Intro|             Plato Republic.~Monon gar auto legeiv, osper gumnon kai
 163  Thea|             not see them? or shall we aver that, seeing them, we must
 164  Thea|             owner keeps in some other aviaries or graven on waxen blocks
 165 Intro|         frankness with which they are avowed, instead of being veiled,
 166 Intro|              cloak,—still less can he awaken harmonious thoughts or hymn
 167 Intro|            disaster; he looks such an awkward, inexperienced creature,
 168  Thea|         through his inexperience. His awkwardness is fearful, and gives the
 169  Thea|           opposite—false when they go awry and crooked.~THEAETETUS:
 170 Intro|            often repeats the parallel axiom, ‘All knowledge is experience.’
 171  Thea|          truly.~SOCRATES: These three axioms, if I am not mistaken, are
 172  Thea|            waggon consists of wheels, axle, body, rims, yoke.~THEAETETUS:
 173  Thea|           good and healthy sensations—aye and true ones; and the wise
 174 Intro|               fifth or fourth century B.C. To this was often added,
 175 Intro|               and the allusion to the backward state of solid geometry
 176 Intro|               observe that Protagoras bade me be serious, and complained
 177 Intro|               of the connexion we are baffled and disappointed. In our
 178  Thea|             sit down, as at a game of ball, and shall be donkey, as
 179  Thea|                they are ships without ballast, and go darting about, and
 180 Intro|       discussions ‘bursting in like a band of revellers.’ (2) As illustrations
 181  Thea|          existence or non-existence I banish from writing and speech,
 182  Thea|      attainment of offices—clubs, and banquets, and revels, and singing-maidens,—
 183  Thea|         Theodorus, or from some outer barbarian?~THEAETETUS: How could it?~
 184 Intro|          clothed with associations or bare and divested of them. We
 185 Intro|              that any system, however baseless and ineffectual, in our
 186 Intro|               is sensation; the other basing the virtues on the idea
 187 Intro|         universal flux, about which a battle-royal is always going on in the
 188  Thea|          great many men who have long beards?~SOCRATES: Yes, Theodorus,
 189  Thea|              you see, Theaetetus, the bearings of this tale on the preceding
 190 Intro|       proportion this birth-influence bears to nurture and education.
 191 Intro|               condition of a rational beast. He is to limit himself
 192  Thea|               and afterwards you were beaten in a race by a grown-up
 193      | became
 194 Intro|          having learned how to make a bed, or cook up flatteries;
 195  Thea|              task, such as packing up bed-clothes, or flavouring a sauce or
 196  Thea|         things near them, and so they beget; but what is begotten is
 197 Intro|               to return again to the ‘beggarly elements’ of ancient scepticism,
 198  Thea|               they beget; but what is begotten is swifter, for it is carried
 199 Intro|              to answer questions, and begs him to interrogate Theaetetus,
 200  Thea|           common nature which no more belonged to you than to another.~
 201  Thea|                is like a soul utterly benighted.~THEAETETUS: Tell me; what
 202 Intro|            special difficulties which beset the student of the Theaetetus: (
 203  Thea|              Theodorus, that I am not betrayed into rudeness by my love
 204  Thea|               command to a young man, bids me interrogate you. Take
 205 Intro|             La science est une langue bien faite.’ But anybody who
 206  Thea|         another; there is a law which binds us one to the other, but
 207 Intro|        calculate what proportion this birth-influence bears to nurture and education.
 208 Intro|              is the preparation for a biting jest); for those who reap
 209  Thea|              whether we were right in blaming and taking offence at Protagoras
 210 Intro|           whom Plato may perhaps have blended some features of the Atomists
 211  Thea|           aviaries or graven on waxen blocks according to your foolish
 212 Intro|              from his mother bold and bluff, and he ushers into light,
 213 Intro|          kings and slaves. And he who boasts of his descent from Amphitryon
 214 Intro|               is to the mind what the bones are to the body: (d) of
 215  Thea|             book of Protagoras’ which bore this title.) in secret to
 216 Intro|              the materials in our own bosoms. We can observe our minds
 217 Intro|              the world without us—the boundless earth or sea, the vacant
 218 Intro|       representation of the mind as a box, as a ‘tabula rasa,’ a book,
 219 Intro|               is worthy of the great ‘brainless brothers,’ Euthydemus and
 220 Intro|              to some extent, not as a branch of science, but as a collection
 221  Thea|               of the first of the two brats, had been alive; he would
 222  Thea|              is perception.~SOCRATES: Bravely said, boy; that is the way
 223  Thea|            instigate your elders to a breach of faith, but should prepare
 224  Thea|              of sense, which are ever breaking forth and coming to the
 225 Intro|              watch, a motive power, a breath, a stream, a succession
 226  Thea|             SOCRATES: I may add, that breathless calm, stillness and the
 227  Thea|            places, as a freeman is in breeding unlike a slave.~THEODORUS:
 228  Thea|       oven-makers, there is a clay of brick-makers; would not the answer be
 229  Thea|         statement that the sun is the brightest of the heavenly bodies which
 230  Thea|             the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or
 231  Thea|             likely to produce a brave brood?~THEAETETUS: No, never.~
 232 Intro|               of the great ‘brainless brothers,’ Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,
 233 Intro|               the slow additions that build up the mind’ of the human
 234 Intro|              compared to an irregular building, run up hastily and not
 235 Intro|             The subject has gained in bulk and extent; whether it has
 236 Intro|               to live, and not a mere burden of the earth.’ But he should
 237  Thea|        good-for-nothing persons, mere burdens of the earth, but such as
 238 Intro|       recollecting or reanimating the buried past: (4) thought, in which
 239  Thea|               of a midwife, brave and burly, whose name was Phaenarete?~
 240 Intro|                the fresh discussions ‘bursting in like a band of revellers.’ (
 241  Thea|                Bear in mind the whole business of the midwives, and then
 242  Thea|                for example, a man may buy and keep under his control
 243 Intro|            empyrean. Like a bird in a cage, the mind confined to sense
 244 Intro|            hand when they are already caged.~This distinction between
 245  Thea|               is he an astronomer and calculator and musician, and in general
 246 Intro|           Some feeling or association calls them up, and they are uttered
 247  Thea|              may add, that breathless calm, stillness and the like
 248  Thea|               time, why should we not calmly and patiently review our
 249 Intro|      dysentery which prevailed in the camp. The mention of his condition
 250 Intro|       according to the measure of his capacity and education. But neither
 251 Intro|      phenomenon itself is of the most capricious and uncertain sort. It may
 252  Thea|            Must he not be talking ‘ad captandum’ in all this? I say nothing
 253 Intro|          humaner method, and to avoid captious and verbal criticisms.’~
 254  Thea|            the aviary, and wishing to capture a certain sort of knowledge
 255  Thea|             he will think that he has captured knowledge and not ignorance?~
 256  Thea|          place in him? I speak by the card in order to avoid entanglements
 257  Thea|         SERVANT READS.~SOCRATES: If I cared enough about the Cyrenians,
 258 Intro|               phenomena. It should be careful to distinguish the higher
 259 Intro|              it. But this distinction carries us a very little way, for
 260 Intro|               the symptoms of labour, carrying the child round the hearth,
 261 Intro|               the human mind has been cast. From these the individual
 262 Intro|      doubtless give them both a sound castigation and be off to the shades
 263  Thea|              that to-day, and in this casual manner, we have found a
 264  Thea|            need not again go over the catalogue of excluded cases, in which
 265  Thea|    explanation.~SOCRATES: But when he catches the one which he wants,
 266  Thea|        himself?—will he describe the ‘catching’ of them and the original ‘
 267 Intro|                There are some leading categories or classifications of thought,
 268 Intro|                cannot escape from the category of relation.~But because
 269  Thea|             praises of some keeper of cattle—a swineherd, or shepherd,
 270 Intro|               opinions. The confusion caused by the irony of Socrates,
 271  Thea|         pervert in all sorts of ways, causing infinite perplexity to one
 272 Intro|               rid of them than we can cease to be ourselves. The absolute
 273  Thea|       THEAETETUS: Yes, with wonderful celerity.~SOCRATES: Yes, we did not
 274 Intro|              horse, but have a common centre of perception, in which
 275 Intro|               nerves or great nervous centres from the mind which uses
 276 Intro|             eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when men walk in the daylight
 277  Thea|          strongly urge, is the golden chain in Homer, by which he means
 278  Thea|           preserved, but if they were chained up and their motions ceased,
 279 Intro|             infinite in number. And I challenge you, either to show that
 280 Intro|              of Psychology: they have challenged the received meaning of
 281  Thea|        argument, which is made by the champions of appearance. They would
 282 Intro|         speech finds out the dried-up channel.~e. ‘Consciousness’ is the
 283 Intro|            latent. But we are able to characterise them sufficiently by that
 284  Thea|     conception of your distinguishing characteristics.~THEAETETUS: I suppose not.~
 285 Intro|                But I cannot be fairly charged,’ he will say, ‘with an
 286 Intro|            the term. Theodorus justly charges Socrates with going beyond
 287 Intro|               parts himself, and even charging his own arguments with unfairness.
 288  Thea|            What is it?~SOCRATES: I am charmed with his doctrine, that
 289 Intro|               or of temperance in the Charmides. At length we arrive at
 290 Intro|            Are not these speculations charming, Theaetetus, and very good
 291  Thea|                Well, then, be of good cheer; do not say that Theodorus
 292 Intro|              are contained in it; any chemical compound is more than and
 293 Intro|               the same sense in which Chemistry, Physiology, or Mathematics
 294  Thea|               the reproach of talking childishly.~THEODORUS: I will do my
 295 Intro|             in the literary desert of China or of India, that such systems
 296  Thea|                I think that we have a choice of three meanings.~THEAETETUS:
 297 Intro|            them have been accepted by Christian and Western nations. Yet
 298 Intro|              to calculate a period of chronology by minutes. The mind ceases
 299 Intro|          minute points is imitated by Cicero (De Amicitia), the interlocutory
 300  Thea|         rotatory machine, in the same circles, is as nothing compared
 301  Thea|              but he makes an enormous circuit. For example, when asked
 302 Intro|               the help of position or circumlocution to become the expression
 303 Intro|        knowledge, is increased by the circumstance that in the Theaetetus and
 304 Intro|            Could he have pretended to cite from a well-known writing
 305 Intro|                But no early authority cites the work, the invention
 306  Thea|          Theodorus has praised many a citizen and stranger in my hearing,
 307 Intro|     discernment of the track than the civilised man; in like manner the
 308  Thea|               to say in answer to the civilities of his adversaries, for
 309 Intro|            say, a mere word or symbol claiming to be a proposition: the
 310 Intro|             the discussion, Theodorus claims to be released from the
 311  Thea|          divided all numbers into two classes: those which are made up
 312 Intro|            some leading categories or classifications of thought, which, though
 313 Intro|            progress or attain to much clearness or exactness. It is however
 314 Intro|              the material— there is a cleft between them; and the heart
 315  Thea|            The letters, which are the clements; and the syllables, which
 316  Thea|             discoveries to which they cling are of their own making.
 317 Intro|          pleases. But though not very closely connected, neither is the
 318 Intro|         imagination we enter into the closet of the mind and withdraw
 319 Intro|              are not forgotten in the closing words. At the end of the
 320 Intro|              a place, between a scene clothed with associations or bare
 321  Thea|               wisdom of the arts, are coarse and vulgar. The unrighteous
 322  Thea|             have no need of my art, I coax them into marrying some
 323  Thea|            meaning: When you speak of cobbling, you mean the art or science
 324  Thea|               Like a good-for-nothing cock, without having won the
 325 Intro|            mind and to experience, or coeval with them, is (like the
 326 Intro|       personal identity in which they coexist.~So comprehensive is modern
 327 Intro|              in conceiving of them as coexistent. When the limit of time
 328 Intro|              notions or from internal coherence. It is made up of scattered
 329 Intro|              or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply
 330 Intro|               can describe it. We can collect information about it; we
 331 Intro|           branch of science, but as a collection of facts bearing on human
 332  Thea|            may be which happens to be coloured white. And this is true
 333  Thea|         imperceptibly got between the combatants, and, unless we can protect
 334 Intro|            Plato saw the necessity of combating the illogical logic of the
 335 Intro|            that the links by which we combine them are apt to be mere
 336 Intro|              content by comparing and combining them with one another. It
 337  Thea|            ordinances which the state commanded and thought just, were just
 338  Thea|             they not look up to their commanders as if they were gods, and
 339 Intro|               of the dialogue. At the commencement of a great discussion, the
 340  Thea|     remarkable Athenian youth, whom I commend to you as well worthy of
 341  Thea|               which the all-wise poet commends, or muddy and of impure
 342  Thea|             name being, that they are commensurable with the former [i.e., with
 343 Intro|            truly persuade them of the commission of such an act. Here the
 344 Intro|         Lysimachus, who was specially committed to his charge in the Laches,
 345 Intro|              nor will I admit that my common-sense account of knowledge can
 346 Intro|            the power of imparting and communicating them to others. For men
 347  Thea|              they had in them by evil communications, being fonder of lies and
 348  Thea|              is not expedient for the community one state is wiser and one
 349  Thea|            approaching us; he and his companions have been anointing themselves
 350 Intro|          suffering, but the perpetual companionship of evil (compare Gorgias);
 351 Intro|            tendencies of his age, and compares them. But he does not seek
 352  Thea|              like the Lacedaemonians, compel me to strip and fight, I
 353  Thea|               reason is, that the god compels me to be a midwife, but
 354  Thea|             say; he who lasts out his competitors in the game without missing,
 355  Thea|            Yes, I shall say, with the complacence of one who thinks that he
 356  Thea|             The unfairness of which I complain is that you do not distinguish
 357 Intro|               bade me be serious, and complained of our getting up a laugh
 358 Intro|              There can be no truth or completeness in any study of the mind
 359 Intro|            piece to the musician’s or composer’s mind, so a great principle
 360  Thea|             know to other simples and compounds, we shall say that the letters
 361 Intro|              so much as he is able to comprehend or has the opportunity of
 362  Thea|             both ways.~SOCRATES: Yes, comrade; for, if not, they would
 363 Intro|          assent.’~‘But I ought not to conceal from you that there is a
 364  Thea|           that he will allow, when he concedes that his adversary has a
 365  Thea|           position, having so great a conceit of our own poor opinion
 366 Intro|         second question, namely, that concerning the relation of the mind
 367  Thea|        indifferent matter, but always concerns himself; and often the race
 368 Intro|       conclusion, in which nothing is concluded.~There are two special difficulties
 369 Intro|             the eye. It observes the ‘concomitant variations’ of body and
 370 Intro|          really a universal, and only condescends by the help of position
 371  Thea|              such a knowledge of what conduces to health as to enable them
 372  Thea|             Certainly I should, and I confess to you that I am lost in
 373  Thea|           they seem to each one, were confidently maintaining that the ordinances
 374 Intro|           simple. The senses mutually confirm and support one another;
 375 Intro|            especially in infancy. The confirmation of them by one another cannot
 376 Intro|             which we are compelled to conform, and to which our ideas
 377 Intro|           level of bodily ones, or to confound one with the other.~g. That
 378 Intro|                But he may err when he confuses what he knows or perceives,
 379 Intro|             is an expression which is confusing, for the phenomenon itself
 380  Thea|           find out, in a friendly and congenial spirit, what we really mean
 381  Thea|             perhaps a cowherd, who is congratulated on the quantity of milk
 382  Thea|           whiteness and the sensation connatural with it, which could not
 383 Intro|               the subject, we trace a connection with the later rather than
 384 Intro|              be examined.’ Theaetetus consents, and is caught in a trap (
 385  Thea|           patient. And from all these considerations, as I said at first, there
 386 Intro|        mensura,’ which Theodorus also considers to be ‘really too bad.’~
 387 Intro|               sense. It should assert consistently the unity of the human faculties,
 388  Thea|               it would be the all, if consisting of all the parts?~THEAETETUS:
 389  Thea|               only reply, that S is a consonant, a mere noise, as of the
 390 Intro|           figure of the midwives, the constant profession of ignorance
 391 Intro|            conceived as of themselves constituting a common mind, and having
 392 Intro|               whole and parts, of the constitution of the mind, of the relation
 393  Thea|             in an aviary which he has constructed at home; we might say of
 394 Intro|              simultaneously with this construction a negative process has to
 395 Intro|              different points of view containing an analysis of the real
 396 Intro|              will hardly enable us to contemplate from within the mind in
 397 Intro|        degenerating into Eristic. The contemporaries of Plato and Socrates were
 398 Intro|               already he may be heard contemptuously replying that he is not
 399  Thea|          sphere of existence the soul contends that the thoughts which
 400  Thea|               think that you would be contented with the statement that
 401 Intro|       respectively with necessary and contingent matter. But no true idea
 402 Intro|              performing one minute is continued by us in the next—and also
 403 Intro|              analyze them, and also a continuing mind to which they belong;
 404 Intro|              inherited has never been contradicted in all our experience and
 405 Intro|               that true opinion was a contradiction in terms.~Assuming the distinction
 406  Thea|             Yes; the inference is the contradictory of my assertion.~SOCRATES:
 407 Intro|             rest and motion are again contrasted, and the Sophistical or
 408 Intro|             no science which does not contribute to our knowledge of it.
 409 Intro|               Theaetetus, offers many contributions. He has followed philosophy
 410  Thea|        yourself in this polemical and controversial temper, but to find out,
 411 Intro|          because relative only to the controversies of the time. In the interval
 412 Intro|             of religious or political controversy, and without any care for
 413 Intro|            times, under ambiguous and convenient phrases.~Plato appears to
 414 Intro|            and knowledge,—between the conventional and the true.~The greater
 415 Intro|       philosophy and rhetoric, and as conversant respectively with necessary
 416  Thea|               own soul, but those who converse with me profit. Some of
 417  Thea|              with some other thing is converted into a patient. And from
 418 Intro|              surely the orator cannot convey a true knowledge of crimes
 419 Intro|         supposed to have a mission to convict men of self-conceit; in
 420 Intro|                the tongue will escape conviction but not the mind, as Euripides
 421 Intro|             Athens and correcting the copy from Socrates’ own mouth.
 422  Thea|            than cutting the umbilical cord. And if you reflect, you
 423 Intro|             place any time during the Corinthian war, between the years 390-
 424 Intro|            may be a glimpse round the corner, or a thought transferred
 425 Intro|             time coming to Athens and correcting the copy from Socrates’
 426  Thea|               and on my return I made corrections; thus I have nearly the
 427  Thea|        letters and can write them out correctly, he has right opinion?~THEAETETUS:
 428 Intro|              was the subjective which corresponded to the objective ‘All is
 429 Intro|               or even in the Hesiodic cosmogony, there is no more notion
 430  Thea|              or the dicastery, or the council, or any other political
 431  Thea|            one state is wiser and one counsellor better than another—they
 432 Intro|                and he has resorted to counter-acts of dishonesty and falsehood,
 433  Thea|         children, and at another time counterfeits which are with difficulty
 434 Intro|               who are of all ages and countries. What we are in mind is
 435 Intro|    possibility of error, which is not covered by his theory, viz. errors
 436  Thea|              Take care; let us not be cowards and betray a great and imposing
 437  Thea|             or shepherd, or perhaps a cowherd, who is congratulated on
 438 Intro|        troublesome and dangerous than cows or sheep; like the cow-herd,
 439  Thea|              of the cobbler and other craftsmen; these, each and all of,
 440  Thea|            tongue, and the motion and creation of bitterness in and about
 441 Intro|            are acknowledged to be the creations of the mind herself, working
 442 Intro|               by friction, and living creatures owe their origin to a similar
 443  Thea|               but this is not to your credit. For I declare that the
 444 Intro|            convey a true knowledge of crimes at which the judges were
 445 Intro|       deprived of any of the tests or criteria of truth. One man still
 446 Intro|             of the Republic, Timaeus, Critias, to retain the order in
 447 Intro|             avoid captious and verbal criticisms.’~Such, Theodorus, is the
 448 Intro|          thesis of Protagoras, we are criticizing the Protagoras of Plato,
 449  Thea|            away from the argument and crow.~THEAETETUS: How do you
 450 Intro|              when the mind has become crowded with names, acts, feelings,
 451 Intro|        perception? Yet perhaps we are crowing too soon; and if Protagoras, “
 452  Thea|              false birth would be the crowning achievement of the art of
 453 Intro|    preparation in the Theaetetus, and crowns the work in the Sophist.~
 454 Intro|               matter, which is to the cube or solid what space is to
 455  Thea|               that the same art which cultivates and gathers in the fruits
 456  Thea|           health as to enable them to cure themselves.~THEODORUS: I
 457 Intro|                may be assumed to be a current philosophical opinion of
 458 Intro|      complicated reasonings. The most cursory glance at objects enables
 459 Intro|               draws around itself the curtain of the physical world and
 460 Intro|      reflections upon life. To follow custom, to have no new ideas or
 461 Intro|              of proving a thesis by a cut-and-dried argument; nor does he imagine
 462  Thea|             greatest pride, more than cutting the umbilical cord. And
 463 Intro|               who live in a different cycle of human thought. All times
 464 Intro|             Being and the Megarian or Cynic isolation of individuals
 465  Thea|              I cared enough about the Cyrenians, Theodorus, I would ask
 466 Intro|             much more troublesome and dangerous than cows or sheep; like
 467  Thea|             quiver, sayings brief and dark, and shoot them at you;
 468  Thea|             when I deprived them of a darling folly; they did not perceive
 469 Intro|             they will not answer, but dart at you some unintelligible
 470  Thea|               without ballast, and go darting about, and are mad rather
 471 Intro|            know? And a fresh opponent darts from his ambush, and transfers
 472 Intro|               imagine the world first dawning upon the eye of the infant
 473 Intro|       centuries, when men walk in the daylight of inductive science.~The
 474  Thea|              therefore Theodorus is a deceiver after all.~SOCRATES: Well,
 475 Intro|          Three main points have to be decided: (a) Would Protagoras have
 476  Thea|             when she has arrived at a decision, either gradually or by
 477 Intro|              Good people, you sit and declaim about the gods, of whose
 478 Intro|               patron of all Sophists, declaring that he himself had early ‘
 479  Thea|              see nor hear the laws or decrees, as they are called, of
 480  Thea|               word and indulge him in deed; but his soul is small and
 481  Thea|        opposite judgment and opinion, deeming that you judge falsely?~
 482 Intro|               But the thoughts of men deepened, and soon they began to
 483 Intro|             of nations, is one of the deepest and noblest modes of studying
 484 Intro|           follow and love you; and if defeated he will lay the blame on
 485  Thea|              there is a corresponding defect in the mind—the soft are
 486 Intro|              not been very zealous in defending him.’~Theodorus objects
 487 Intro|          senses, or possibly from the deficiency of certain branches of knowledge;
 488 Intro|             the two, partaking of the definiteness of the outer and of the
 489 Intro|              speech, lest they should degenerate into formulas. A difficult
 490 Intro|              mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into Eristic. The contemporaries
 491  Thea|               the reason of man being degraded to the level of the brutes,
 492 Intro|           light and shade. From these delicate and almost imperceptible
 493 Intro|             Socrates takes an evident delight in ‘the wise Theaetetus,’
 494 Intro|               which the wisest of men delights to speak of himself.~The
 495 Intro|       functions of a man-midwife, who delivers men of their thoughts, and
 496  Thea|            and the god they owe their delivery. And the proof of my words
 497  Thea|           affirms and at another time denies that element of something,
 498 Intro|             while implying a point of departure in sense and a return to
 499 Intro|        youthful intoxication which is depicted in the Philebus. But he
 500  Thea|             plants or seeds should be deposited.~THEAETETUS: Yes, the same