Dialogue

1001  Thea|            been infected with logical impurity. Thousands of times have
1002  Thea|           other way can we escape the imputation, that in our fresh analysis
1003  Thea|               being and becoming, and inactivity of not-being and destruction;
1004 Intro|     conception of space is feeble and inadequate, derived for the most part
1005 Intro|             conception of it. Even an inanimate nature cannot be adequately
1006 Intro|    Consciousness is opposed to habit, inattention, sleep, death. It may be
1007  Thea|             by the use of potions and incantations they are able to arouse
1008 Intro|           that without it the mind is incapable of conceiving the body,
1009 Intro|               view a wide prospect by inches through a microscope, or
1010  Thea|               motion, or, as I rather incline to think, two? I should
1011  Thea|           five, showing that they are incommensurable by the unit: he selected
1012 Intro|              you are wondering at his incomparable wisdom, he gets you into
1013  Thea|             which ‘becoming’ is by us incorrectly called being, but is really
1014  Thea|              is open to the charge of incorrectness; for which is more correct,
1015 Intro|          reflection. As our knowledge increases, our perception of the mind
1016  Thea|               THEODORUS: The thing is incredible, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
1017  Thea|               younger answer; he will incur less disgrace if he is discomfited.~
1018  Thea|              letters or elements were indefinable and unknown?~THEAETETUS:
1019 Intro|        literary desert of China or of India, that such systems have
1020  Thea|              in a parable, meaning to indicate the likeness of the soul
1021 Intro|             Archon; but with the same indifference to the result which is everywhere
1022  Thea|             trial is never about some indifferent matter, but always concerns
1023 Intro|              see or perceive are used indifferently of both; the words intuition,
1024 Intro|              in his words. He is only indignant at the ‘reductio ad absurdum’
1025 Intro|             throws on his subject are indirect, but they are not the less
1026  Thea|              syllables, and much more indispensable to a perfect knowledge of
1027 Intro|             the Eleatic Being and the individualism of Megarians and Cynics.~
1028 Intro|             having a distinctness and individuality of their own. To reduce
1029  Thea|            could describe all of them individually; but if any one asked what
1030 Intro|             exercise and destroyed by indolence; and if the sun ceased to
1031 Intro|             geometry, and Socrates is induced by him to put the question
1032 Intro|              Theaetetus, after having indulged in the figure of the waxen
1033 Intro|          system, however baseless and ineffectual, in our own or in any other
1034  Thea|               how will you answer the inevitable man?~THEAETETUS: I should
1035  Thea|       otherwise the same person would inevitably know and not know the same
1036 Intro|               conditions of this very inexact science, and we shall only
1037  Thea|               of disaster through his inexperience. His awkwardness is fearful,
1038 Intro|            this is an unfortunate and inexpressive way of describing their
1039  Thea|              in their utter folly and infatuation they are growing like the
1040  Thea|                that we have long been infected with logical impurity. Thousands
1041  Thea|       knowledge; and therefore I must infer that they are not the same.~
1042 Intro|              of language or erroneous inferences. But he is struck by one
1043 Intro|              substances. After having inflicted his theories on any one
1044 Intro|           traces of the same Megarian influences which appear in the Parmenides,
1045 Intro|           describe it. We can collect information about it; we can enumerate
1046  Thea|             for our opinion of him by informing us at the outset that while
1047 Intro|              to the mind and silently informs the judgment. We have also
1048 Intro|             discerning ear. And as we inherit from our parents or other
1049  Thea|              of theories, and now you innocently fancy that I am a bag full
1050  Thea|               them at you; and if you inquire the reason of what he has
1051 Intro|          Theaet., Soph.); and (4) the inquiry into not-being in the Sophist
1052 Intro|          allusion occurs to have been inserted afterwards. Again, the Theaetetus
1053 Intro|            they relate to a something inside the body, which seems also
1054  Thea|               less tractable and more insidious nature. Then, again, he
1055  Thea|               because I discover upon inspection that the conception which
1056  Thea|             sweet will, and get their inspiration anywhere, each of them saying
1057  Thea|            this rough exercise, which inspires me like a passion. Please,
1058 Intro|            himself only in successive instants. To such thinkers, whether
1059  Thea|               a young rogue, must not instigate your elders to a breach
1060 Intro|               we not seem to perceive instinctively and as an act of sense the
1061  Thea|               the place of wisdom and instruction, and deserve to be well
1062 Intro|               of Protagoras to be our instructor at a high figure; and why
1063 Intro|              through some new optical instrument limiting the sphere of vision,
1064 Intro|              made easy by the natural instrumentality of language, and the mind
1065  Thea|                But he is dead, and we insult over his orphan child; and
1066 Intro|            The framework of the human intellect is not the peculium of an
1067 Intro|              he may be a judge of our intellects. And if he were to praise
1068 Intro|              other end of the ‘globus intellectualis,’ nearest, not to earth
1069 Intro|               becomes keener and more intense, especially when confined
1070 Intro|               general the greater the intension the less the extension of
1071  Thea|            shall consider that either intentionally or unintentionally he is
1072 Intro|        changing. The veil of language intercepts facts. Hence it is desirable
1073  Thea|              the world. But I am more interested in our own Athenian youth,
1074 Intro|             the sphere of vision, the interior of thought and sensation
1075 Intro|          another in thought, but they intermingle. It is possible to reflect
1076 Intro|               abstract notions or are intermingled with them: (5) action, in
1077 Intro|             in Mathematics they often interpenetrate. Space or place has been
1078 Intro|           abstractions, why should we interpose the fiction of time between
1079 Intro|          which interpret and are also interpreted by our experience of others.
1080  Thea|            that which grammarians and interpreters teach about them.~SOCRATES:
1081 Intro|         nature of knowledge, which is interrupted by two digressions. The
1082 Intro|              which space is or may be intersected are absolutely true in all
1083 Intro|          appearing and reappearing at intervals. Again and again we are
1084 Intro|            and imagination which have intervened. The necessary connexion
1085 Intro|             aid of a boy? He meant to intimate that you must take the place
1086  Thea|            have to say would be quite intolerable.~SOCRATES: Then examine
1087 Intro|    hierophants and philosophers. (See Introd. to Cratylus.)~b. This primitive
1088 Intro|              then again opposed. They introduce a system and order into
1089 Intro|               Republic), until number introduces light and order into the
1090 Intro|              written down. In a short introductory scene, Euclides and Terpsion
1091 Intro|             with the thought which is introspected? Has the mind the power
1092 Intro|             interpret another? Is the introspecting thought the same with the
1093 Intro|              faculty’ which is always intruding upon us in the search after
1094 Intro|           mind which are immediate or intuitive. Of the five senses, two—
1095 Intro|              the desire for knowledge invents the materials of it.~And
1096 Intro|           idealism, and any arbitrary inversion of our ordinary modes of
1097 Intro|               wanting.~But are we not inverting the natural order in looking
1098 Intro|               which has hitherto been investigated with little or no success.~
1099  Thea|              the company to aid me in investigating. Will you answer me a question: ‘
1100 Intro|          awakening us to the sense of inveterate errors familiarized by language,
1101 Intro|             the desire of Socrates he invites Theaetetus to sit by them.~‘
1102 Intro|               going too far. Socrates ironically replies, that he is not
1103  Thea|            combinations of them to be irrational—is this your view?~THEAETETUS:
1104 Intro|              It may be compared to an irregular building, run up hastily
1105  Thea|           impossible, and afforded an irresistible proof of the non-existence
1106 Intro|             of knowledge. It seeks to isolate itself from matter and sense,
1107 Intro|           Lacedaemonians disputed the Isthmus with Epaminondas, would
1108 Intro|             of our ideas or feelings.~j. Although heredity has been
1109  Thea|               name given to those who join together man and woman in
1110 Intro|             of an individual, but the joint work of many who are of
1111 Intro|      indistinctness when they are all jolted together in a little soul,
1112  Thea|      indistinctness when they are all jostled together in a little soul,
1113 Intro|               cannot put the judge or juror in possession of all the
1114 Intro|               carried further than is justified by experience. Any separation
1115 Intro|              Heracleitus which at all justifies Plato’s account of him.
1116  Thea|                I think that you fully justify the praises of Theodorus,
1117 Intro|            wonder by exaggerating it.~k. The love of system is always
1118 Intro|          Greek philosophy has not the Kantian notion of space, but only
1119 Intro|             the outward sense becomes keener and more intense, especially
1120  Thea|      listening to the praises of some keeper of cattle—a swineherd, or
1121 Intro|             who played upon the words ker and keros, may be smooth
1122  Thea|          likeness of the soul to wax (Kerh Kerhos); these, I say, being
1123  Thea|              of the soul to wax (Kerh Kerhos); these, I say, being pure
1124 Intro|         played upon the words ker and keros, may be smooth and deep,
1125  Thea|         beautiful, you have done me a kindness in releasing me from a very
1126 Intro|              the other, a serviceable knave, who hardly knows how to
1127  Thea|            ready to go to me on their knees—and then, if my familiar
1128  Thea|             over this, and would have knocked their arguments together
1129  Thea|               youth upwards have been knocking about in the courts and
1130  Thea|          wishes to catch any of these knowledges or sciences, and having
1131 Intro|         Aristotle. The philosopher of Konigsberg supposed himself to be analyzing
1132 Intro|               can make for ourselves.~l. The mind, when studied
1133 Intro|          speech—a sort of nominalism ‘La science est une langue bien
1134 Intro|               After having slowly and laboriously in the course of ages gained
1135 Intro|               mission, his ‘Herculean labours,’ of which he has described
1136  Thea|         argued for pay. He would have lain in wait for you, and when
1137 Intro|        philosopher. This is a sort of landing-place or break in the middle of
1138 Intro|           association of objects in a landscape. Just as a note or two of
1139 Intro|        nominalism ‘La science est une langue bien faite.’ But anybody
1140 Intro|            depend on the intensity or largeness of the perception, or on
1141 Intro|           State were just, while they lasted. But no one would maintain
1142 Intro|              and our philosopher only laughs at his inability to do a
1143  Thea|               help going into fits of laughter, so that he seems to be
1144  Thea|            the state thinks and makes lawful, and that in determining
1145  Thea|               rest,’ as for the great leader himself, Parmenides, venerable
1146  Thea|             that narrow, keen, little legal mind is called to account
1147 Intro|              Republic.~Monon gar auto legeiv, osper gumnon kai aperemomenon
1148 Intro|          Heracleitus, not to speak of lesser resemblances in thought
1149  Thea|               who has been trained in liberty and leisure, whom you call
1150 Intro|                while giving unbounded license to the imagination, is still
1151 Intro|              about them’) than in the life-time of Heracleitus—a phenomenon
1152 Intro|      enthusiastic persons have made a lifelong study, without ever asking
1153 Intro|           their hopes that they might lift the human race out of the
1154 Intro|              sense—this was the first lifting up of the mist. It wavered
1155  Thea|             have been put to you by a light-armed mercenary, who argued for
1156 Intro|              used as signs only, thus lightening the labour of recollection.~
1157 Intro|              for the great Parmenides lightly to attack him. (We shall
1158 Intro|           surrounding a question. The lights which he throws on his subject
1159 Intro|          passage to worlds beyond. He liked to think of the world as
1160  Thea|         argued from probabilities and likelihoods in geometry, would not be
1161  Thea|          SOCRATES: And is not a whole likewise that from which nothing
1162 Intro|             limited in range, and its limitation is its strength. In later
1163 Intro|             we accept them;—with what limitations is this true? For we cannot
1164 Intro|            animals. It is necessarily limited in range, and its limitation
1165 Intro|              place, but with form and lineaments half filled up. This is
1166  Thea|         lengths or magnitudes] not in linear measurement, but in the
1167 Intro|          system, we discover that the links by which we combine them
1168  Thea|              should begin by making a list of the impossible cases
1169 Intro|        secondly on some other patient listener, thirdly on his dog,’ he
1170 Intro|            broken in a wicked man who listens to reproof until he becomes
1171 Intro|            the Middle Ages, or in the literary desert of China or of India,
1172 Intro|              time by the influence of literature and philosophy. A great,
1173  Thea|              his mind, disdaining the littlenesses and nothingnesses of human
1174 Intro|             impure dialectic’; or the lively images under which the argument
1175 Intro|        symbols we are able to give a ‘local habitation and a name’ to
1176 Intro|            meaning (onomaton sumploke logou ousia). This seems equivalent
1177 Intro|                is described as having looked in vain for Euclides in
1178 Intro|            termed ‘the fallacy of the looking-glass.’ We cannot look at the
1179  Thea|            what does he hear high and low sounds?—you would say, if
1180 Intro|           metaphysical philosophy are lowered by the influence which is
1181  Thea|              judgment?~THEODORUS: How ludicrous!~SOCRATES: And the vinegrower,
1182 Intro|            terms of a series, objects lying near, words having a customary
1183  Thea|             of us held in his hands a lyre, and he said that they were
1184  Thea|              the manner of disputers (Lys.; Phaedo; Republic), we
1185  Thea|         pestle, or any other rotatory machine, in the same circles, is
1186  Thea|             less, either in number or magnitude, while remaining equal to
1187 Intro|              by the jest of the witty maid-servant, who saw Thales tumbling
1188 Intro|              is the joke, not only of maid-servants, but of the general herd,
1189 Intro|           festive, clubs, and singing maidens do not enter even into their
1190  Thea|           thus’ or in ‘not thus.’ The maintainers of the doctrine have as
1191 Intro|         himself and of the world. The majority of them have been accepted
1192 Intro|         shares with Socrates, and the man-midwifery of Socrates, are not forgotten
1193  Thea|            place, the meaning may be, manifesting one’s thought by the voice
1194  Thea|      THEAETETUS: Certainly; he who so manifests his thought, is said to
1195 Intro|            addition of characteristic marks. Motion and rest were equally
1196 Intro|           matchmaker (see above), and marry them to Prodicus or some
1197  Thea|              my art, I coax them into marrying some one, and by the grace
1198 Intro|            idealists, of apostles and martyrs. The leaders of mankind
1199  Thea|          assertion.~SOCRATES: Yes, my marvel, and there might have been
1200 Intro|     metaphysician is delighted at his marvellous discovery that nothing is,
1201 Intro|             hear your arguments, I am marvellously ready to assent.’~‘But I
1202 Intro|           face and frame, the Silenus mask and the god within, which
1203 Intro|            assured. And having such a mass of acknowledged truth in
1204  Thea|             in this. Summon the great masters of either kind of poetry—
1205 Intro|          known, would have a sparring match over this, but you and I,
1206 Intro|             materialists, or that the materialist doctrines prevalent in modern
1207 Intro|               space, and force as the materializing or solidification of motion.
1208  Thea|             we have a choice of three meanings.~THEAETETUS: What are they?~
1209  Thea|              the word ‘all’ of things measured by number, we predicate
1210  Thea|             magnitudes] not in linear measurement, but in the value of the
1211  Thea|           whether all men are equally measures and sufficient for themselves
1212 Intro|             me oide sumpeplektai, tis mechane ten toiauten omologian pote
1213 Intro|               the senses, or to other mechanical inventions, by which the
1214 Intro|               have been a few both in mediaeval times and since the Reformation
1215 Intro|            again the ‘I’ comes in and mediates between them. It is also
1216  Thea|            and mouth, and every other member complete; how would that
1217 Intro|             as he is described in the Memorabilia, asking What is justice?
1218  Thea|             was a youth, and he had a memorable conversation with him, which
1219  Thea|           when he has to perform some menial task, such as packing up
1220 Intro|             by Socrates for his ‘homo mensura,’ which Theodorus also considers
1221 Intro|              statement in Suidas, who mentions him twice over, first, as
1222  Thea|               to you by a light-armed mercenary, who argued for pay. He
1223  Thea|               would have shown you no mercy; and while you were lost
1224 Intro|            Soon objects of sense were merged in sensations and feelings,
1225 Intro|               he entangles him in the meshes of a more advanced logic.
1226  Thea|               who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child
1227 Intro|             term ‘sense’ is also used metaphorically, both in ancient and modern
1228 Intro|             to the mind. The youthful metaphysician is delighted at his marvellous
1229 Intro|               men; many who have been metaphysicians in their youth, as they
1230 Intro|               oide, teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai,
1231  Thea|          dream in return for a dream:—Methought that I too had a dream,
1232 Intro|           affirms. Thus we are in the midst of the fray; both parties
1233  Thea|      congratulated on the quantity of milk which he squeezes from them;
1234 Intro|               swine-herd or cow-herd, milking away at an animal who is
1235 Intro|             has rarely, if ever, been minutely analyzed. Like memory, it
1236 Intro|               period of chronology by minutes. The mind ceases to exist
1237  Thea|              or thinking power, which misplaces them, have a conception
1238 Intro|             the Theaetetus could have misrepresented Protagoras without violating
1239      | miss
1240  Thea|               mistook the letters and misspelt the syllables?~SOCRATES:
1241 Intro|               first lifting up of the mist. It wavered between object
1242  Thea|              in his mind; nor can any mistaking of one thing for another
1243  Thea|           THEAETETUS: You mean that I mistook the letters and misspelt
1244 Intro|           never says that he has been misunderstood: he rather seems to imply
1245 Intro|              but all is in motion and mixture and transition and flux
1246 Intro|             there may be flying about mock birds, or forms of ignorance,
1247  Thea|           real question—it would be a mockery, would it not?~THEODORUS:
1248  Thea|            answer about roots be your model, and as you comprehended
1249 Intro|         patience and intelligence and modesty is verified in the course
1250 Intro|             begins again with its own modicum of experience having only
1251 Intro|           flux. And therefore we must modify the doctrine of Theaetetus
1252  Thea|             in different men; harder, moister, and having more or less
1253 Intro|               the existence even of a mollusc. And observe, this extreme
1254 Intro|               is only a succession of momentary perceptions. At this point
1255 Intro|      understanding with him about the money which is to be paid for
1256 Intro|            genesthai; Plato Republic.~Monon gar auto legeiv, osper gumnon
1257 Intro|            doing a few weeks or a few months ago, and still less of what
1258      | Moreover
1259 Intro|          necessary to provide for the morrow, this is regarded by the
1260  Thea|       necessity they hover around the mortal nature, and this earthly
1261 Intro|              the spring of a watch, a motive power, a breath, a stream,
1262 Intro|             popular experience, it is moulded to a certain extent by hierophants
1263 Intro|           mankind, furnish the larger moulds or outlines in which the
1264  Thea|               by a wall, which is his mountain-pen. Hearing of enormous landed
1265 Intro|             he keeps his flock in the mountains is surrounded by a wall.
1266  Thea|             other things, are born of movement and of friction, which is
1267 Intro|            completion of such a work (Muller). We may also remark that
1268  Thea|              made up of equal factors multiplying into one another, which
1269 Intro|            principle of Being and the multitudinous principle of atoms, entered
1270 Intro|        wonderful apparatus of nerves, muscles, tissues, by which the senses
1271  Thea|             desire to see what is the mutual relation of these principles,—
1272 Intro|         apparently simple. The senses mutually confirm and support one
1273 Intro|      remembers that every one has had myriads of progenitors, rich and
1274 Intro|             he saw or seemed to see a mysterious principle working behind
1275  Thea|          human nature cannot know the mystery of an art without experience;
1276 Intro|        phraseology have been termed a mystic; and like him would have
1277 Intro|        Protagoras, “the father of the myth,” had been alive, the result
1278 Intro|            often expressed in strange mythological symbols. But he has no analysis
1279  Thea|               right to look on at the naked wrestlers, some of them
1280      | namely
1281  Thea|               to my friend here, your namesake Socrates, in a recent discussion.~
1282 Intro|            infant the latent power of naming is almost immediately observable.
1283 Intro|              Theaetetus is one of the narrated dialogues of Plato, and
1284 Intro|              Socrates’ own mouth. The narrative, having introduced Theaetetus,
1285 Intro|          lower, from the wider to the narrower view of human knowledge.
1286  Thea|           kind of service smartly and neatly, but knows not how to wear
1287  Thea|               this, for I do not wish needlessly to discourage you. And so
1288 Intro|               habit soon returns, the neglected organs come back into use,
1289 Intro|           seen by us in our immediate neighbourhood, although the actual impression
1290  Thea|           would have got you into his net, out of which you would
1291 Intro|               higher to nature in the neutral or lower sense. It should
1292  Thea|             will be hit by some other new-fangled word, and will make no way
1293 Intro|             the infant or of a person newly restored to sight. Yet even
1294  Thea|                SOCRATES: That is good news; whose son is he?~THEODORUS:
1295  Thea|          wholly unacquainted with his next-door neighbour; he is ignorant,
1296 Intro|              make the reflection that nice distinctions of words are
1297  Thea|              he seemed to answer very nicely.~SOCRATES: If you were to
1298  Thea|               of women in childbirth; night and day they are full of
1299      | nine
1300 Intro|             but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when men walk
1301  Thea|             Theaetetus, too much; the nobility and liberality of your nature
1302  Thea|              S is a consonant, a mere noise, as of the tongue hissing;
1303 Intro|          progress in learning to the ‘noiseless flow of a river of oil’;
1304  Thea|              neither vowel-sounds nor noises. Thus letters may be most
1305 Intro|           thought in speech—a sort of nominalism ‘La science est une langue
1306  Thea|             is ever to be found among non-existing things?~THEAETETUS: I do
1307  Thea|           perception more than of any non-perception, if all things partake of
1308  Thea|         raised about these phenomena, notably about dreaming and waking?~
1309  Thea|               the faults which I have noted. But, seeing that we are
1310  Thea|       disdaining the littlenesses and nothingnesses of human things, is ‘flying
1311 Intro|             only not condescending to notice what is near them.~‘What
1312 Intro|         importance be attached to the notices of him in Suidas and Proclus,
1313  Thea|             in the hands of trustees; notwithstanding which he is wonderfully
1314  Thea|             Protagorean fable came to nought, and yours also, who maintained
1315  Thea|              the voice with verbs and nouns, imaging an opinion in the
1316 Intro|             wrong. Like the hero of a novel, he is not to be supposed
1317 Intro|          pleasing sense of wonder and novelty: in youth they seem to have
1318  Thea|              arithmetician sets about numbering, or a grammarian about reading?
1319  Thea|            things about him which are numerable?~THEAETETUS: Of course he
1320 Intro|               now we may suppose that numerous images present themselves
1321 Intro|      pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.~f.
1322 Intro|              it is known only as the ‘nurse of generation.’ When therefore
1323 Intro|              birth-influence bears to nurture and education. But this
1324 Intro|              are in perpetual motion, obedient to their text-books. Their
1325 Intro|          naming is almost immediately observable. And therefore the description
1326 Intro|              another, a more accurate observer and relater of facts, a
1327 Intro|            the uninitiated I mean the obstinate people who believe in nothing
1328 Intro|             with the egkekalummenos (‘obvelatus’) of Eubulides. For he who
1329  Thea|             think at all?~THEAETETUS: Obviously.~SOCRATES: Then no one can
1330 Intro|               of supposing partial or occasional explanation of mental phenomena
1331 Intro|            some other dialogues he is occasionally playing both parts himself,
1332 Intro|               hereditary right to the occupation. There is also a serious
1333 Intro|             knowledge? The mind, when occupied by herself with being, is
1334 Intro|              void which they leave or occupy when passing from one portion
1335  Thea|           right in blaming and taking offence at Protagoras on the ground
1336  Thea|           beauty, and you must not be offended if I say that he is very
1337 Intro|    mathematical sciences, which alone offered the type of universality
1338 Intro|           interesting situation? I am offering you specimens of other men’
1339  Thea|               EUCLID: No, indeed, not offhand; but I took notes of it
1340  Thea|        societies in the attainment of offices—clubs, and banquets, and
1341  Thea|            SOCRATES: But there was an omission of the further case, in
1342 Intro|              tis mechane ten toiauten omologian pote epistemen genesthai;
1343  Thea|           Euripides, Hippol.: e gloss omomoch e de thren anomotos.)~THEAETETUS:
1344 Intro|              begin to have a meaning (onomaton sumploke logou ousia). This
1345 Intro|              kai aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton. Soph.~
1346  Thea|                have declared the same openly, that the cobbler too may
1347 Intro|               mind as well as the eye opens or enlarges. For all three
1348 Intro|              not speak truly. But his opponents will refuse to admit this
1349 Intro|               out the similarities of opposing phases of thought. He has
1350 Intro|             get rid of the disguises, oppositions, contradictions, which arise
1351 Intro|            which, as through some new optical instrument limiting the
1352 Intro|         testimony, whether written or oral, which he knows by experience
1353 Intro|            and judges. For surely the orator cannot convey a true knowledge
1354  Thea|             heavens go round in their orbits, all things human and divine
1355 Intro|              of the mind. There is no organic unity in a succession of
1356 Intro|              mind with which they are organically connected. There is no use
1357 Intro|            has become positive. It is originally derived from the contemplation
1358 Intro|              having also the power of origination.~There are other processes
1359 Intro|         pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.~
1360 Intro|                Monon gar auto legeiv, osper gumnon kai aperemomenon
1361 Intro|           teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai, tis
1362 Intro|               onomaton sumploke logou ousia). This seems equivalent
1363 Intro|              is only an hypothesis or outline, which may be filled up
1364 Intro|          furnish the larger moulds or outlines in which the human mind
1365 Intro|             the power of analysis had outrun the means of knowledge;
1366  Thea|              now desist, or they will overflow, and drown the original
1367 Intro|             body, which seems also to overleap the limits of space. The
1368  Thea|             not this have produced an overpowering effect? For if truth is
1369 Intro|          similar sophistical skill in overturning every conceivable theory
1370 Intro|             by shame or by some other overwhelming impulse. These are the greater
1371 Intro|             question naturally arises owing to the childhood of the
1372  Thea|            wrong birds, and which the owner keeps in some other aviaries
1373 Intro|           about the universe of space packed up within, or how can separate
1374  Thea|             some menial task, such as packing up bed-clothes, or flavouring
1375  Thea|               go into a Lacedaemonian palestra, Theodorus, would you have
1376  Thea|               storm preserve; and the palmary argument of all, which I
1377 Intro|           sight and memory there is a palpable unfairness which is worthy
1378 Intro|             long ago he has felt the ‘pang of philosophy,’ and has
1379 Intro|       discourage him by attacking the paradoxical expression ‘true falsehood,’
1380  Thea|          which are supposed to be the parent and guardian of all other
1381 Intro|            And as we inherit from our parents or other ancestors peculiar
1382 Intro|             this was only a “facon de parler,” by which he imposed on
1383 Intro|              independent of the mind (Parm.). Yet from their extreme
1384  Thea|            are called eteron: compare Parmen.; Euthyd.)). I mean to say,
1385  Thea|         non-perception, if all things partake of every kind of motion?~
1386 Intro|         intermediate between the two, partaking of the definiteness of the
1387 Intro|                The error of supposing partial or occasional explanation
1388  Thea|               word ‘other’ means not ‘partially,’ but ‘wholly other.’~THEAETETUS:
1389  Thea|           these fellows not to have a particle of rest in them is more
1390  Thea|              we will fly off from the party which would move the immovable,
1391  Thea|           under foot, as the sea-sick passenger is trampled upon by the
1392 Intro|            between the reason and the passions should also be recognized
1393 Intro|             the one compared with the passivity of the other. The sense
1394 Intro|               feelings or affections (pathemasi), but in the process of
1395 Intro|     supposition entirely destroys the pathetic interest of the introduction.~
1396  Thea|              should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts,
1397 Intro|               Callias, the friend and patron of all Sophists, declaring
1398 Intro|           approach the river-gods, or patrons of the flux.~When they speak
1399  Thea|            seen, and until your other peculiarities have a like distinctness;
1400  Thea|                there is, however, one peculiarity in their case: when they
1401 Intro|            human intellect is not the peculium of an individual, but the
1402  Thea|          pride themselves on having a pedigree of twenty-five ancestors,
1403 Intro|               to be educated, and the pen in which he keeps his flock
1404 Intro|             the mind. And if we could penetrate into the heads of animals
1405 Intro|               imperceptible or hardly perceptible: it may be the living sense
1406  Thea|              a perpetual flux, unless perchance our friend Theaetetus is
1407  Thea|               Trojan horse, there are perched a number of unconnected
1408  Thea|              explanation, then, he is perfected in knowledge and may be
1409  Thea|             no account when he has to perform some menial task, such as
1410 Intro|             that the act which we are performing one minute is continued
1411  Thea|              danger, when they are in perils of war, or of the sea, or
1412 Intro|           themselves, what was really permanent and original could not be
1413 Intro|            rid of; but they have been perpetually enlarged and elevated, and
1414  Thea|         numbers;—you have heard these perplexing questions raised?~THEAETETUS:
1415 Intro|               free ourselves from the perplexities which are involved in it
1416 Intro|             Epicurean type; they have personified ideas; they have sometimes
1417 Intro|              secondly, law or measure pervading the change: these he saw
1418  Thea|          revolution of the scytal, or pestle, or any other rotatory machine,
1419 Intro|              with the Apology and the Phaedrus, and perhaps even with the
1420  Thea|             and burly, whose name was Phaenarete?~THEAETETUS: Yes, I have.~
1421 Intro|  consciousness of sensations (compare Phileb.), or the power of comparing
1422 Intro|           education. Such are the two pictures: the one of the philosopher
1423  Thea|             of justice and injustice, piety and impiety, they are confident
1424  Thea|              mind, when he wanted the pigeon.~THEAETETUS: A very rational
1425 Intro|               of the letters, and the pitch of the voice in uttering
1426 Intro|              which warred against the plainest facts.~Three attempts to
1427  Thea|               squares the equilateral plane numbers, were called by
1428 Intro|          original Socrates is not yet Platonized. Had we no other indications,
1429 Intro|          might therefore with greater plausibility be affirmed to be a condition
1430 Intro|               the words of Homer, who played upon the words ker and keros,
1431  Thea|              of our rashness—like the players in the palaestra who are
1432 Intro|              youthful Theaetetus also plays a different and less independent
1433  Thea|            consistency, and were well pleased if in this way we could
1434 Intro|              They leave on the mind a pleasing sense of wonder and novelty:
1435 Intro|       introduction of an episode in a poem, or of a topic in conversation.
1436  Thea|               wisdom from the many in poetical figures, that Oceanus and
1437 Intro|              region of mythology, and pointed out the similarities of
1438 Intro|              of the world or from one pole of knowledge we may travel
1439  Thea|            encourage yourself in this polemical and controversial temper,
1440 Intro|            not represent the opposite poles of thought in the same way
1441  Thea|                SOCRATES: Or again, in politics, while affirming that just
1442 Intro|      probability that the Sophist and Politicus, which differ greatly in
1443 Intro|             may be all and in all.’ E pollaplasion, eoe, to ergon e os nun
1444 Intro|             old Protagoras could only pop his head out of the world
1445 Intro|               of the human senses, or possibly from the deficiency of certain
1446 Intro|          Metaphysic’ (Gorg.).~In this postscript or appendix we propose to
1447 Intro|        mechane ten toiauten omologian pote epistemen genesthai; Plato
1448  Thea|            wholly other cannot either potentially or in any other way be the
1449  Thea|           SOCRATES: And by the use of potions and incantations they are
1450  Thea|               cannot understand their poverty of ideas. Why are they unable
1451 Intro|               it. But many times more powerful than recollection is recognition,
1452  Thea|            which I refer.~THEAETETUS: Pray what is it?~SOCRATES: How
1453 Intro|     expressions belong really to the ‘pre-historic study’ of philosophy, i.e.
1454 Intro|              and is not the condition precedent of them, but the last generalization
1455 Intro|             is ready to fall over the precipice; his utterance becomes thick,
1456 Intro|            those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them,
1457  Thea|              which will overthrow its predecessor. But you do not see that
1458  Thea|             nothing of the ridiculous predicament in which my own midwifery
1459 Intro|            sense or sensation, can be predicated of anything, for they are
1460  Thea|                Yes.~SOCRATES: Then in predicating the word ‘all’ of things
1461 Intro|           Cynics, seem to have denied predication, while the Cynics themselves
1462  Thea|         remarkably this, like all his predictions, had been fulfilled. I believe
1463 Intro|              of a question is made to predominate over the rest, as in the
1464 Intro|               to the rescue. Socrates prefaces his defence by resuming
1465  Thea|          friend, should Protagoras be preferred to the place of wisdom and
1466 Intro|              question and answer, and prefers the digressions to the main
1467 Intro|              between the two sorts of pregnancy. For women do not bring
1468  Thea|             better than others who is pregnant and who is not?~THEAETETUS:
1469 Intro|           seek to escape from his own prejudices into philosophy. I would
1470  Thea|         Theaetetus, that, given these premises, perception is knowledge.
1471  Thea|           breach of faith, but should prepare to answer Socrates in the
1472 Intro|             verification of causes by prescribed methods less certain. Again,
1473 Intro|         deliver you of something; and presently we will see whether you
1474  Thea|          impair, while wind and storm preserve; and the palmary argument
1475  Thea|           anything, and still has and preserves a memory of that which he
1476 Intro|           horse,’ but the organs of a presiding nature, in which they meet.
1477  Thea|            And I would beg you not to press my words in the letter,
1478 Intro|              others. But this natural presumption is disturbed by the discovery
1479 Intro|           have them, or think without presupposing that there is in us a power
1480 Intro|            art of midwifery; I do not pretend to compare with the good
1481 Intro|            probability. Could he have pretended to cite from a well-known
1482 Intro|               only know less of it by pretending to know more, or by assigning
1483 Intro|           system is always tending to prevail over the historical investigation
1484 Intro|             taken the dysentery which prevailed in the camp. The mention
1485 Intro|               the sensible impression prevails over the conception and
1486 Intro|             the materialist doctrines prevalent in modern times have been
1487 Intro|               this does not, however, prevent him from adding liberality
1488  Thea|             of poetry—Epicharmus, the prince of Comedy, and Homer of
1489  Thea|              to fit this into its own print: if I succeed, recognition
1490 Intro|           which is so entitled, but) ‘privately to his disciples,’—words
1491  Thea|              paid a large sum for the privilege of talking to him, if he
1492 Intro|         regarded as the answer to the problems about One and Being which
1493 Intro|          notices of him in Suidas and Proclus, which are probably based
1494  Thea|             the Socrates who is sick, produces quite another result; which
1495  Thea|                just as he would if we professed to be grammarians and to
1496 Intro|                 Theaetetus, in reply, professes that he is willing to be
1497  Thea|            those who converse with me profit. Some of them appear dull
1498  Thea|               another man? Are you so profoundly convinced of this? Rather
1499 Intro|           distinctions of language.~A profusion of words and ideas has obscured
1500  Thea|             them there is generated a progeny endless in number, having