Dialogue

1501 Intro|              Ethics, and other really progressive sciences, there is a weary
1502 Intro|              of his death recalls the promise of his youth, and especially
1503  Thea|                this which is the most promising of all the definitions of
1504 Intro|             they advance in years are prone to acquiesce in things as
1505 Intro|             the Protagorean thesis is pronounced to be suicidal; for the
1506 Intro|              thus indicated to be the propaedeutic to philosophy. An interest
1507  Thea|            distribute them into their proper places on the block. And
1508  Thea|               he lived.~TERPSION: The prophecy has certainly been fulfilled;
1509 Intro|            his own death; and he then prophesied of him that he would be
1510 Intro|               apace,” if the gods are propitious to them; and this is due
1511  Thea|               from another thing, the proposal is ridiculous.~THEAETETUS:
1512  Thea|              are at rest, as you were proposing.~THEODORUS: You, Theaetetus,
1513 Intro|              his a priori synthetical propositions to Aristotle. The philosopher
1514 Intro|            the attempt to view a wide prospect by inches through a microscope,
1515 Intro|               ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.~f. Lastly, though we speak
1516 Intro|         return. When we left off, the Protagoreans and Heracliteans were maintaining
1517  Thea|        combatants, and, unless we can protect our retreat, we shall pay
1518 Intro|             right on his side when he protests against Socrates arguing
1519  Thea|              at length satisfactorily proven beyond a doubt there are
1520  Thea|               will, Theodorus, as the proverbial philosophers say, and therefore
1521 Intro|        forethought as is necessary to provide for the morrow, this is
1522 Intro|         truism to us, but was a great psychological discovery in the fifth century
1523  Thea|         complaint; but I am even more pugnacious than the giants of old,
1524 Intro|          becomes like a child; or the punishment of the wicked, which is
1525 Intro|               twice over, first, as a pupil of Socrates, and then of
1526  Thea|              who is able to train his pupils in this spirit is a wise
1527 Intro|         conducted to our simplest and purest notion of matter, which
1528  Thea|            and having more or less of purity in one than another, and
1529  Thea|              to finish the story. The purport is that all these things
1530 Intro|             be diverted from his main purpose, which is, to deliver Theaetetus
1531 Intro|               or value. Many who have pursued it far into detail have
1532  Thea|             in philosophy and liberal pursuits are as unlike those who
1533 Intro|               rest of nature. The old Pythagorean fancy that the soul ‘is
1534 Intro|               and animals. It is with qualitative rather than with quantitative
1535 Intro|          qualitative rather than with quantitative differences that we are
1536  Thea|              is a vain shadow, do not quarrel with me on that account,
1537  Thea|          should be able to answer his questioner by giving the elements of
1538 Intro|               meet me with the verbal quibble that one—eteron—is other—
1539 Intro|         supposed to reply by Megarian quibbles, which destroy logic, ‘Not
1540 Intro|             when he tries to draw the quick-witted lawyer out of his pleas
1541 Intro|          which it is almost latent or quiescent: (2) feeling, or inner sense,
1542  Thea|           argument or a question, and quietly asking and answering in
1543 Intro|             of the world they are the quintessence of his own reflections upon
1544  Thea|             that you cannot tell; but quit yourself like a man, and
1545  Thea|               will produce, as from a quiver, sayings brief and dark,
1546  Thea|             any rate, no small war is raging about it, and there are
1547 Intro|             which enabled Socrates to raise a laugh against himself. ‘
1548  Thea|               in Ionia the sect makes rapid strides; the disciples of
1549 Intro|              matter, and of matter as rarefied into space. And motion may
1550 Intro|               in many senses, and has rarely, if ever, been minutely
1551 Intro|           mind as a box, as a ‘tabula rasa,’ a book, a mirror, and
1552  Thea|          shall pay the penalty of our rashness—like the players in the
1553 Intro|            says to the contrary) as a rationale of error, in the case of
1554 Intro|              calculation;—he is to be rationalized, secularized, animalized:
1555 Intro|      acuteness of the angle which the rays of sight form, the distance
1556  Thea|             the right opinion will be re-called?~THEAETETUS: Most true.~
1557 Intro|        invisible agencies by which it reaches the mind, or any process
1558  Thea|           been mentioned, is a way of reaching the whole by an enumeration
1559 Intro|               modern world there were reactions from theory to experience,
1560 Intro|          author. There are few modern readers who do not side with Protagoras,
1561  Thea|           SOCRATES: I approve of your readiness, Theaetetus, but I must
1562  Thea|            and read.~EUCLID’S SERVANT READS.~SOCRATES: If I cared enough
1563 Intro|       although hard to be defined, is realised in the life of philosophy.
1564 Intro|            time between ourselves and realities? Why should we single out
1565 Intro|              fading away or imperfect realization of the outward. But this
1566 Intro|              power of recollecting or reanimating the buried past: (4) thought,
1567 Intro|           biting jest); for those who reap the fruit are most likely
1568 Intro|               Republic, appearing and reappearing at intervals. Again and
1569 Intro|             mind the analogy of sense reappears; and we distinguish not
1570  Thea|               and a sham. Is he to be reared in any case, and not exposed?
1571  Thea|         neither of them have anything reasonable to say, we shall be in a
1572  Thea|              are the combinations;—he reasoned, did he not, from the letters
1573 Intro|              they grow older. But the reasoner is trying to understand
1574 Intro|             the result of complicated reasonings. The most cursory glance
1575 Intro|              proposes that they shall reassemble on the following day at
1576  Thea|        nothing to answer, because you rebuked me just now for making this
1577 Intro|            which forgotten things are recalled or return to the mind, recognition
1578 Intro|              which we are reading and recapitulating what we can remember of
1579      | recently
1580  Thea|           when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man
1581 Intro|             the mind is only the poor recipient of impressions—not the heir
1582  Thea|               will be more distinctly recognised, if we put the question
1583 Intro|             for in dreaming we feebly recollect and also feebly imagine
1584 Intro|               flash, has the power of recollecting or reanimating the buried
1585 Intro|            made up of associations or recollections, but we must observe also
1586 Intro|          become. But then how is this reconcilable with the case of the dice,
1587 Intro|             Socrates, are these words reconcileable with the fact that all mankind
1588  Thea|             and yet I must beg you to reconsider your words. Let us grant
1589 Intro|               But he does not seek to reconstruct out of them a theory of
1590 Intro|               detached from sense are reconstructed in science. They and not
1591  Thea|       abstract, which, as we say, are recorded on the waxen block, and
1592 Intro|             under some circumstances, recover it. A long-forgotten knowledge
1593 Intro|             to the frequency of their recurrence or the truth of the consequences
1594 Intro|               observation of the same recurring object is associated with
1595 Intro|               still an old difficulty recurs; we ask ourselves, ‘How
1596 Intro|             aim at no more than every reflecting man knows or can easily
1597 Intro|         actions. The individual never reflects upon himself as a whole;
1598 Intro|         mediaeval times and since the Reformation who have rebelled against
1599 Intro|               they are right in their refusal. The conclusion is, that
1600  Thea|           THEODORUS: That is the best refutation of him, Socrates; although
1601  Thea|               attempt to supervise or refute the notions or opinions
1602 Intro|              I am. This is one way of refuting him; and he is refuted also
1603 Intro|           which lies still deeper, of regarding the individual mind apart
1604 Intro|               of the inward sense. He regards them as parts or forms of
1605 Intro|               it. Thus we are able to rehabilitate Psychology to some extent,
1606  Thea|               and how will Protagoras reinforce his position? Shall I answer
1607  Thea|              need of our reviewing or reinforcing the argument. But as he
1608  Thea|              our own poor opinion and rejecting that of ancient and famous
1609 Intro|             course of the dialogue he rejects explanations of knowledge
1610 Intro|            and the like. But Socrates rejoins, that this answer contains
1611 Intro|            most part indefinite; they relate to a something inside the
1612 Intro|            more accurate observer and relater of facts, a truer measure
1613 Intro|            expectations from its near relationship to Physiology. We truly
1614  Thea|               all things are becoming relatively to one another, which ‘becoming’
1615 Intro|              flux of Heracleitus. The relativeness of sensation is then developed
1616 Intro|                Theodorus claims to be released from the argument, according
1617  Thea|            have done me a kindness in releasing me from a very long discussion,
1618 Intro|       undefined notion, come out into relief as we approach them or attend
1619  Thea|            has not that position been relinquished by us, because involving
1620  Thea|             to answer Socrates in the remainder of the argument.~THEAETETUS:
1621  Thea|               of him, and thought how remarkably this, like all his predictions,
1622 Intro|            that wisdom is a practical remedial power of turning evil into
1623  Thea|                knowing Theodorus, and remembering in my own mind what sort
1624 Intro|               this is untrue?’~‘First reminding you that I am not the bag
1625 Intro|             world of his own. He also reminds Theaetetus that the midwives
1626 Intro|             to supersede the Platonic reminiscence of Ideas as well as the
1627  Thea|             SOCRATES: Suppose that we remove the question out of the
1628 Intro|            his life. Such experiences render him keen and shrewd; he
1629 Intro|        dramatic character of the work renders the answer to both these
1630 Intro|      distributed in nations, as it is renovated by great movements, which
1631 Intro|            All this time we have been repeating the words ‘know,’ ‘understand,’
1632 Intro|               be heard contemptuously replying that he is not responsible
1633  Thea|               then, and, while we are reposing, the servant shall read
1634 Intro|          impressions are not accurate representations of the truth; they are the
1635  Thea|              was a solemn one; and he reproached us with making a boy the
1636  Thea|            say.~SOCRATES: Are not his reproaches just, and does not the argument
1637 Intro|             wicked man who listens to reproof until he becomes like a
1638  Thea|           which you will also have to repulse.~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
1639 Intro|             labour; and both at times require the assistance of midwives.
1640  Thea|          nothing compared with such a requirement; and we may be truly described
1641 Intro|                not to speak of lesser resemblances in thought and language.
1642 Intro|            way, have explained by the residence of Plato at Megara. Socrates
1643 Intro|            above sensation, and which resides in the mind itself. We are
1644 Intro|            outer form of them only is residing in the city; the inner man,
1645 Intro|              confirmed by it. Who can resist an idea which is presented
1646 Intro|              experience is ultimately resolvable into facts which come to
1647 Intro|               and honesty, and he has resorted to counter-acts of dishonesty
1648 Intro|           rhetoric, and as conversant respectively with necessary and contingent
1649 Intro|               introduced as the chief respondent. But he may be fairly appealed
1650 Intro|          orphans,’ although this is a responsibility which he wishes to throw
1651 Intro|               their text-books. Their restlessness is beyond expression, and
1652 Intro|           infant or of a person newly restored to sight. Yet even with
1653 Intro|              declined to consider, is resumed by the Eleatic Stranger; (
1654 Intro|              I consent.’~Socrates now resumes the argument. As he is very
1655 Intro|               prefaces his defence by resuming the attack. He asks whether
1656  Thea|               practised deception and retaliation, and has become stunted
1657  Thea|              have quick and ready and retentive wits, have generally also
1658 Intro|   corresponding confusion and want of retentiveness; in the muddy and impure
1659 Intro|         nothing is impressed upon the retina except colour, including
1660 Intro|           very reluctant to leave his retirement and defend his old master.
1661 Intro|               the intelligent element retires, and the sensual or sensuous
1662  Thea|              there will be no harm in retracing our steps and beginning
1663  Thea|             unless we can protect our retreat, we shall pay the penalty
1664 Intro|             in a higher object, which reunites with the subject. A multitude
1665 Intro|            bursting in like a band of revellers.’ (2) As illustrations of
1666  Thea|              clubs, and banquets, and revels, and singing-maidens,—do
1667  Thea|             gives the philosopher his revenge; for dizzied by the height
1668  Thea|              have been no need of our reviewing or reinforcing the argument.
1669  Thea|             of imbecility. When he is reviled, he has nothing personal
1670 Intro|                We say to ourselves on revisiting a spot after a long interval:
1671 Intro|              Eristic spirit within us revives the question, which has
1672  Thea|               go round and round:—the revolution of the scytal, or pestle,
1673  Thea|             the heavenly bodies which revolve about the earth.~THEAETETUS:
1674  Thea|               case we shall be richly rewarded. And now, what are you saying?—
1675 Intro|            may give true opinion. The rhetorician cannot put the judge or
1676  Thea|               either case we shall be richly rewarded. And now, what
1677 Intro|           have the most difficulty in ridding ourselves. Neither can we
1678  Thea|       difficulties of others, and the ridicule will not attach to us. On
1679  Thea|             pursuit of philosophy are ridiculously at fault when they have
1680  Thea|             unrighteous—he is perfect righteousness; and he of us who is the
1681  Thea|       consists of wheels, axle, body, rims, yoke.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
1682  Thea|            twelve, he got hold of the ring-dove which he had in his mind,
1683  Thea|       afterwards, as our acquaintance ripens, if the god is gracious
1684  Thea|             you whether there are any rising geometricians or philosophers
1685  Thea|               the truth about acts of robbery or violence, of which they
1686  Thea|             threw travellers from the rocks; for the Lacedaemonian rule
1687  Thea|              in the illusion that his roguery is clever; for men glory
1688  Thea|               or pestle, or any other rotatory machine, in the same circles,
1689 Intro|               which the impression is rubbed out or imperfectly made,
1690  Thea|               reverse; the shaggy and rugged and gritty, or those who
1691 Intro|              taught and willing to be ruled, and of other men who are
1692  Thea|              looking for teachers and rulers of themselves and of the
1693  Thea|         grown-up man, who was a great runner—would the praise be any
1694  Thea|           should be who mean to dwell safely in a state.’ Let us tell
1695  Thea|            and many to other inspired sages. I tell you this long story,
1696  Thea|               is trampled upon by the sailor, and to do anything to us.
1697  Thea|        whether sounds and colours are saline or not, you would be able
1698  Thea|            they were gods, and expect salvation from them, only because
1699 Intro|               of a river of oil’; the satirical touch, ‘flavouring a sauce
1700  Thea|               I can never solve to my satisfaction—What is knowledge? Can we
1701  Thea|           SOCRATES: We have at length satisfactorily proven beyond a doubt there
1702 Intro|            between use and possession saves us from the absurdity of
1703  Thea|               unrighteous man, or the sayer and doer of unholy things,
1704  Thea|            produce, as from a quiver, sayings brief and dark, and shoot
1705 Intro|             or he is to be an amiable sceptic, better than his own philosophy,
1706 Intro|            Theaetetus, gathers up the sceptical tendencies of his age, and
1707 Intro|         arranged in order, before the scheme of thought is complete.
1708 Intro|             of the real and apparent (Schleiermacher); and both may be brought
1709  Thea|          should rather compare you to Scirrhon, who threw travellers from
1710 Intro|            the man at whom the vulgar scoff; he seems to them as if
1711  Thea|          round:—the revolution of the scytal, or pestle, or any other
1712  Thea|         trample us under foot, as the sea-sick passenger is trampled upon
1713  Thea|             before his master, who is seated, and has the cause in his
1714  Thea|              indeed, for in Ionia the sect makes rapid strides; the
1715 Intro|             he is to be rationalized, secularized, animalized: or he is to
1716 Intro|           much to the original latent seed, it is impossible to distinguish.
1717  Thea|           soils the several plants or seeds should be deposited.~THEAETETUS:
1718  Thea|       incommensurable by the unit: he selected other examples up to seventeen —
1719 Intro|      Theaetetus, the image of my ugly self, as Theodorus declares.
1720  Thea|             as the saying is, and the self-assured adversary closes one of
1721  Thea|             that all being is one and self-contained, and has no place in which
1722  Thea|          which is light, or any other self-contradictory thing, which works, not
1723 Intro|              extreme abstractions are self-destructive, and, indeed, hardly distinguishable
1724 Intro|             we may verify them by it. Self-examination is one of those studies
1725 Intro|        infinite, whether explained as self-existence, or as the totality of human
1726 Intro|            world—are the disguises of self-interest. Human nature is dried up;
1727 Intro|        reasons why there is so little self-knowledge among mankind; they do not
1728  Thea|            likeness of their own evil selves, and with evil friends—when
1729 Intro|            any man or some men, ‘quod semper quod ubique’ or individual
1730  Thea|           would have got rid of their senseless vanity. Now, in all these
1731  Thea|               may or may not perceive sensibly that which he knows.~THEAETETUS:
1732 Intro|              element retires, and the sensual or sensuous takes its place.
1733 Intro|           stages, the transition from sensuality to love or sentiment and
1734 Intro|           retires, and the sensual or sensuous takes its place. And so
1735 Intro|            from sensuality to love or sentiment and from earthly love to
1736 Intro|               all the rest. These are separable in thought, but united in
1737 Intro|            can we draw any line which separates facts from ideas. And the
1738 Intro|               a whole, the terms of a series, objects lying near, words
1739  Thea|           senses or out of them, ever seriously tried to persuade himself
1740  Thea|              the argument, and in all seriousness, and ask and answer one
1741 Intro|            himself ridiculous, not to servant-maids, but to every man of liberal
1742  Thea|              is free, and are not the servants of the argument; but the
1743 Intro|              flatteries; the other, a serviceable knave, who hardly knows
1744  Thea|           speak when an arithmetician sets about numbering, or a grammarian
1745 Intro|            the dialogue is devoted to setting up and throwing down definitions
1746  Thea|               is, not to allow of any settled principle either in their
1747  Thea|         selected other examples up to seventeen —there he stopped. Now as
1748 Intro|              prove them. It has never severely drawn the line between facts
1749 Intro|            first attempts to attain a severer logic, were making knowledge
1750 Intro|              or notion, even with the severity of an impossible logic,
1751 Intro|         castigation and be off to the shades in an instant. Seeing that
1752 Intro|               found there? But such a shadowy enquiry is not worth pursuing
1753  Thea|          would have him; and I cannot shake off a feeling of anxiety.~
1754 Intro|              But though they may have shaken the old, they have not established
1755 Intro|               used to express what is shallow in thought and feeling.~
1756 Intro|            the language of Plato, ‘we shamelessly use, without ever having
1757  Thea|              being fonder of lies and shams than of the truth; and they
1758 Intro|               characteristic which he shares with Socrates, and the man-midwifery
1759 Intro|            and dangerous than cows or sheep; like the cow-herd, he has
1760  Thea|              he is laughed at for his sheepishness; and when others are being
1761  Thea|             rate, my good man, do not sheer off until we know whether
1762 Intro|        fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points of view, are
1763 Intro|               and his other qualities shine forth as the argument proceeds.
1764  Thea|               quick tempers; they are ships without ballast, and go
1765 Intro|             other kinds of knowledge— shoemaking, carpentering, and the like.
1766  Thea|           sayings brief and dark, and shoot them at you; and if you
1767  Thea|            could fail to know, and we showed that a person who had seen
1768  Thea|             giving oracles out of the shrine of his book.~THEODORUS:
1769 Intro|               the action to the word, shuts one of your eyes; and now,
1770 Intro|             former to ourselves is by shutting our eyes and trying to recall
1771  Thea|              to impugn him. Do not be shy then, but stand to your
1772 Intro|               Two letters, S and O, a sibilant and a vowel, of which no
1773 Intro|          answer is, that he perceives sights with the eye, and sounds
1774 Intro|              dialogues. In its higher signification it was the knowledge, not
1775  Thea|               mean, to oneself and in silence, not aloud or to another:
1776 Intro|             to heavenly, the slow and silent influence of habit, which
1777 Intro|          ungainly face and frame, the Silenus mask and the god within,
1778 Intro|        mythology, and pointed out the similarities of opposing phases of thought.
1779  Thea|               and the like, which are similarly to be regarded, as I was
1780 Intro|            the image, which is an apt similitude of the Socratic theory of
1781  Thea|      syllables which we know to other simples and compounds, we shall
1782  Thea|             And have you never heard, simpleton, that I am the son of a
1783 Intro|              any health or freedom or sincerity in him he has grown up to
1784  Thea|            whole earth; and when they sing the praises of family, and
1785 Intro|      political or festive, clubs, and singing maidens do not enter even
1786  Thea|             banquets, and revels, and singing-maidens,—do not enter even into
1787  Thea|              he be ignorant of either singly and yet know both together?~
1788  Thea|           pass through the senses and sink into the heart of the soul,
1789 Intro|              the new solution than he sinks into a fit of despondency.
1790  Thea|             which I compare myself in size, or which I apprehend by
1791  Thea|            wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder,
1792  Thea|              poor me. The truth is, O slatternly Socrates, that when you
1793  Thea|               think that there is the slightest necessity for doing so.
1794 Intro|               other, lest through the slippery nature of language we should
1795 Intro|             the human race out of the slough in which they found them.
1796 Intro|               the smallest there is a smaller still; and even these inconceivable
1797  Thea|              all this kind of service smartly and neatly, but knows not
1798  Thea|           Whereas he moves surely and smoothly and successfully in the
1799  Thea|               they think fit they can smother the embryo in the womb.~
1800 Intro|           other man. Or he may have a snub-nose and prominent eyes;—that
1801 Intro|             through the dialogue. The snubnosedness of Theaetetus, a characteristic
1802 Intro|            see the distant hills, who soar into the empyrean. Like
1803  Thea|               and if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler
1804  Thea|              talk and be friendly and sociable.~THEODORUS: The reverse
1805 Intro|              nations and affect human society on a scale still greater,
1806  Thea|           most likely to know in what soils the several plants or seeds
1807  Thea|           repeated, is to himself the sole judge, and everything that
1808  Thea|         measure of all things,’ was a solemn one; and he reproached us
1809 Intro|               as the materializing or solidification of motion. Space again is
1810 Intro|            that by getting rid of the solidity of matter he might open
1811 Intro|           both figures, as not really solving the question which to us
1812 Intro|           word spoken or suggested by somebody else.~III. The tendency
1813      | Somehow
1814      | somewhere
1815 Intro|               from Socrates, has been sorely distressed by them. Socrates
1816  Thea|               into manhood, having no soundness in him; and is now, as he
1817  Thea|           same time he would not have spared in you and me the faults
1818 Intro|               time to time, as with a spark or flash, has the power
1819 Intro|            can be known, would have a sparring match over this, but you
1820  Thea|              would have had a regular sparring-match over this, and would have
1821 Intro|           Theodorus.~‘The rule of the Spartan Palaestra is, Strip or depart;
1822 Intro|           sophist, lawyer, statesman, speaker, and the philosopher,—between
1823 Intro|            parted among the different speakers. Sometimes one view or aspect
1824 Intro|            son of Lysimachus, who was specially committed to his charge
1825 Intro|             the idea of knowledge and specific kinds of knowledge,—a confusion
1826 Intro|          situation? I am offering you specimens of other men’s wisdom, because
1827 Intro|             also some other supports, specious rather than real. It is
1828 Intro|         rather appear to be. They are spectators, not thinkers, and the best
1829 Intro|         original chaos. The two great speculative philosophies, which a century
1830  Thea|             that some one asks you to spell the first syllable of my
1831 Intro|           false; and half our life is spent in dreaming; and who can
1832 Intro|             the body to the mind. The spiritual and intellectual have thus
1833 Intro|          attaching a meaning.~Yet, in spite of Plato and his followers,
1834  Thea|               is not the bodily habit spoiled by rest and idleness, but
1835 Intro|           disinclined to admit of the spontaneity or discontinuity of the
1836 Intro|               tell how or why, by the spontaneous action of the mind itself
1837 Intro|              we fix a limit, space is springing up beyond. Neither can we
1838 Intro|              knowledge; and through a spurious use of dialectic, the distinctions
1839  Thea|            tend, and out of whom they squeeze the wealth, is of a less
1840  Thea|             quantity of milk which he squeezes from them; and he remarks
1841  Thea|               dismayed, and lost, and stammering broken words, is laughed
1842 Intro|             That which he succeeds in stamping is remembered and known
1843  Thea|               Do not be shy then, but stand to your word.~THEAETETUS:
1844  Thea|              foundations the argument stands firm, which you, Socrates,
1845 Intro|               our habitation and ‘the starry heaven above’ and we ourselves
1846  Thea|              he was looking up at the stars. She said, that he was so
1847 Intro|            sense, or we make them the starting-points of a higher philosophy.~
1848 Intro|        characters of sophist, lawyer, statesman, speaker, and the philosopher,—
1849  Thea|            are looking for; but if we stay where we are, nothing will
1850  Thea|              fighting, and have never stayed with them in time of peace,
1851  Thea|              than courageous; and the steadier sort, when they have to
1852  Thea|              no harm in retracing our steps and beginning again. Better
1853 Intro|              having a customary order stick together in the mind. A
1854 Intro|     Protagoras; but he is too old and stiff to try a fall with him,
1855  Thea|           consideration of my age and stiffness; let some more supple youth
1856  Thea|             to admit falsehood, or to stifle the truth. Once more, then,
1857  Thea|             ill bringing up, but have stifled whatever else they had in
1858  Thea|            add, that breathless calm, stillness and the like waste and impair,
1859  Thea|             the question which is now stirring is of immense extent, and
1860 Intro|            considerable degree to our stock of mental facts.~f. The
1861 Intro|              we deny that the ancient Stoics were materialists, or that
1862 Intro|               patients are barren and stolid, but after a while they “
1863 Intro|      abstraction, and to this opinion stood in no relation.~Like Theaetetus,
1864  Thea|             up to seventeen —there he stopped. Now as there are innumerable
1865 Intro|        appears to be a body of truths stored up in books, which when
1866  Thea|            and impair, while wind and storm preserve; and the palmary
1867  Thea|              and their followers, who stoutly maintain that all being
1868  Thea|             impressions of sense meet straight and opposite—false when
1869 Intro|          ideas or opinions, not to be straining after impossibilities, to
1870  Thea|              but as we are in a great strait, every argument should be
1871  Thea|               away, they grow at last strangely discontented with themselves;
1872  Thea|              say of me, that I am the strangest of mortals and drive men
1873  Thea|             origin of all things, are streams, and that nothing is at
1874 Intro|            feeling, so we improve and strengthen them, not only by regular
1875 Intro|          ideas of space on which much stress has been laid, differs in
1876 Intro|              is to geometry; or, more strictly, arithmetic may be said
1877  Thea|            Ionia the sect makes rapid strides; the disciples of Heracleitus
1878 Intro|               degenerated into a mere strife of words. And when thus
1879 Intro|           mind and the ear is no less striking than the sympathy of the
1880  Thea|               unless he can tell what string answers to a particular
1881  Thea|       understand you, though I have a strong suspicion that you are right.~
1882  Thea|              argument of all, which I strongly urge, is the golden chain
1883 Intro|       erroneous inferences. But he is struck by one possibility of error,
1884 Intro|             the errors into which the students of it are most likely to
1885 Intro|      Self-examination is one of those studies which a man can pursue alone,
1886 Intro|              things? We are but ‘such stuff as dreams are made of;’
1887  Thea|         forward in the search, we may stumble upon the thing which we
1888 Intro|            become fixed: we are still stumbling on the threshold. In Aristotle
1889  Thea|           retaliation, and has become stunted and warped. And so he has
1890  Thea|             have to face study, prove stupid and cannot remember. Whereas
1891 Intro|           cannot be analyzed by us or subjected to observation and experiment.
1892 Intro|             relation to a previous or subsequent sensation. The acts of seeing
1893 Intro|              matter, the qualities of substances. After having inflicted
1894 Intro|         corresponding to the infinite subtlety of the mind; we are conscious
1895  Thea|              into its own print: if I succeed, recognition will take place;
1896 Intro|               remember. That which he succeeds in stamping is remembered
1897  Thea|               surely and smoothly and successfully in the path of knowledge
1898 Intro|                opinion, reasoning are successively examined, we first get rid
1899 Intro|           Heracleitus, like his great successor Hegel, has both aspects.
1900 Intro|         Heracleitus with his Ephesian successors, and has then disproved
1901 Intro|             as a new train of thought suddenly arises, as, for example,
1902 Intro|           that our thoughts, actions, sufferings, are our own. It is a kind
1903 Intro|             as a note or two of music suffices to recall a whole piece
1904 Intro|              of gods, perfect and all sufficing:—like other ideals always
1905 Intro|               depend on the number of suffrages, and be more or less true
1906 Intro|             of reasoning, and without suggesting the questions which naturally
1907 Intro|             is a confused impression, sugkechumenon ti, as Plato says (Republic),
1908  Thea|                the young will be more suitable, and they will improve more
1909 Intro|              The confident adversary, suiting the action to the word,
1910 Intro|              of reasoning about them (sullogismo).’ Here, is in the Parmenides,
1911 Intro|         subjects of Psychology may be summed up as follows:—~a. The relation
1912 Intro|               ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai, tis mechane ten toiauten
1913 Intro|              have a meaning (onomaton sumploke logou ousia). This seems
1914  Thea|             the son of Euphronius the Sunian, who was himself an eminent
1915 Intro|              which Heracliteanism was sunk in the age of Plato. He
1916 Intro|             child of Thaumas’; or the superb contempt with which the
1917  Thea|             and argue only out of the superfluity of their wits, would have
1918 Intro|              nor less evidence of the supernatural than he had before. He himself
1919 Intro|               psychology, which is to supersede the Platonic reminiscence
1920  Thea|            placed; for the attempt to supervise or refute the notions or
1921  Thea|              stiffness; let some more supple youth try a fall with you,
1922 Intro|              not-being in the Sophist supplements the question of false opinion
1923 Intro|           reflection on ourselves has supplied the missing link between
1924 Intro|       perception supplies or seems to supply a firm standing ground.
1925 Intro|        Psychology has also some other supports, specious rather than real.
1926 Intro|               partly following Plato) supposes God to be the outer heaven
1927 Intro|               It is the element which surrounds them; it is the vacuum or
1928 Intro|           mind, when thinking, cannot survey that part of itself which
1929 Intro|             Has the mind the power of surveying its whole domain at one
1930 Intro|            wrack behind;’ or they may survive in fragments. Nor is it
1931 Intro|               real person, whose name survived in the next generation.
1932  Thea|                though I have a strong suspicion that you are right.~SOCRATES:
1933 Intro|               than real. It is partly sustained by the false analogy of
1934 Intro|       experience with which the ideas swarming in men’s minds could be
1935  Thea|            ask whether there can be a swift which is slow, or a heavy
1936  Thea|              times when my head quite swims with the contemplation of
1937 Intro|             writings a sport of other swine. But I still affirm that
1938 Intro|        appears to him to be a kind of swine-herd or cow-herd, milking away
1939  Thea|               some keeper of cattle—a swineherd, or shepherd, or perhaps
1940 Intro|               details,—discerning the symptoms of labour, carrying the
1941 Intro|              to Plato as his a priori synthetical propositions to Aristotle.
1942 Intro|          China or of India, that such systems have arisen; in our own
1943  Thea|               to write and does write T and e—can we suppose that
1944 Intro|               me oide, teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai,
1945 Intro|              the mind as a box, as a ‘tabula rasa,’ a book, a mirror,
1946 Intro|             up. His great dialectical talent is shown in his power of
1947  Thea|            they all come from him who talks with me. I only know just
1948  Thea|           losing in height, be not so tall—not that I should have lost,
1949  Thea|               of a certain height and taller than you, may within a year,
1950  Thea|               and fair to it; but the teacher of wisdom causes the good
1951 Intro|               instruments such as the telescope or microscope by which the
1952 Intro|              gar arche men o me oide, teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me
1953 Intro|               of the mind? Experience tells us by a thousand proofs
1954  Thea|           polemical and controversial temper, but to find out, in a friendly
1955  Thea|              and smooth and perfectly tempered, then the impressions which
1956  Thea|             have generally also quick tempers; they are ships without
1957 Intro|             scientific men are always tempted to indulge. But however
1958 Intro|           trustworthy evidence of the tenets of Protagoras, or of the
1959  Thea|               to write and does write Th and e; but, again, meaning
1960  Thea|              most valorous.~SOCRATES: Thank you, friend; and I hope
1961  Thea|          meaning to write the name of Theododorus, thinks that he ought to
1962 Intro|             history of philosophy and theology.~It is this perverted form
1963      | thereby
1964 Intro|      precipice; his utterance becomes thick, and he makes himself ridiculous,
1965 Intro|             390, when Plato was about thirty-nine years of age. No more definite
1966 Intro|               harbour, and on his way thither had met Theaetetus, who
1967  Thea|               matchmakers, and have a thorough knowledge of what unions
1968 Intro|              view of some who are not thorough-going followers of Protagoras,—
1969 Intro|              what, in the language of Thrasyllus, may be called the Second
1970  Thea|            question, Theodorus, which threatens to be more serious than
1971  Thea|         Hippol.: e gloss omomoch e de thren anomotos.)~THEAETETUS: Very
1972 Intro|            are still stumbling on the threshold. In Aristotle the process
1973  Thea|          compare you to Scirrhon, who threw travellers from the rocks;
1974 Intro|             devoted to setting up and throwing down definitions of science
1975 Intro|             which many have had to be thrown away because relative only
1976 Intro|         question. The lights which he throws on his subject are indirect,
1977  Thea|             of our discussion, may be thrust out of sight by the unbidden
1978      | thy
1979 Intro|             impression, sugkechumenon ti, as Plato says (Republic),
1980 Intro|          philosophical problem can be tied up within the limits of
1981 Intro|        physicians and husbandmen, who till the soil and infuse health
1982  Thea|               and said that the boy’s timidity was made to tell against
1983 Intro|              ou me oide sumpeplektai, tis mechane ten toiauten omologian
1984 Intro|         apparatus of nerves, muscles, tissues, by which the senses are
1985 Intro|         sumpeplektai, tis mechane ten toiauten omologian pote epistemen
1986 Intro|           gumnon kai aperemomenon apo ton onton apanton, adunaton.
1987  Thea|            heaven, they should be the top of all perfection! SOCRATES:
1988 Intro|            episode in a poem, or of a topic in conversation. That which
1989 Intro|            and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing
1990 Intro|             self-existence, or as the totality of human thought, or as
1991 Intro|               and we have no means of tracing them from one to the other.
1992 Intro|            quicker discernment of the track than the civilised man;
1993  Thea|              the wealth, is of a less tractable and more insidious nature.
1994  Thea|        forward and try.~SOCRATES: The trail soon comes to an end, for
1995 Intro|              Socrates, are noticeable traits of character.~The Socrates
1996  Thea|             and allow the argument to trample us under foot, as the sea-sick
1997  Thea|             the sea-sick passenger is trampled upon by the sailor, and
1998 Intro|           combinations of them, or to transfer them from the object to
1999 Intro|               not be ‘heterodoxy,’ or transference of opinion;—I mean, may
2000 Intro|            darts from his ambush, and transfers to knowledge the terms which
2001 Intro|            language and in fact, they transform themselves, the one into
2002 Intro|               have always been slowly transforming the mind, how religions
2003 Intro|             is better understood when translated into the vernacular.~I.a.
2004  Thea|               under his hand, and can transmit them to another.~THEAETETUS:
2005 Intro|             in man, seems often to be transmitted by inheritance. Neither
2006  Thea|               Yes.~SOCRATES: And when transmitting them he may be said to teach
2007 Intro|            them—on either supposition transplacement is inconceivable.~But perhaps
2008  Thea|              place; but if I fail and transpose them, putting the foot into