Dialogue

2009 Intro|              pole of knowledge we may travel to the other in an indivisible
2010  Thea|            you to Scirrhon, who threw travellers from the rocks; for the
2011 Intro|            Consciousness’ is the most treacherous word which is employed in
2012  Thea|              off and underground in a trice. But as he is not within
2013 Intro|                Socrates.’ But when he tries to draw the quick-witted
2014  Thea|        philosopher deems this to be a trifle, because he has been accustomed
2015 Intro|         external objects, is really a trifling one, though it has been
2016 Intro|            called the Second Platonic Trilogy. Both the Parmenides and
2017  Thea|             the person asked is found tripping, if he has answered as I
2018  Thea|             err, and if my mind never trips in the conception of being
2019  Thea|           after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly
2020 Intro|            receive or not receive the truant souls. There he is supposed
2021 Intro|            action is deemed to be the truest which is nearest to sense.
2022 Intro|          relativity of knowledge is a truism to us, but was a great psychological
2023 Intro|            may sometimes appear to be truisms, are of the greatest value,
2024  Thea|            and he said that they were tuned alike, should we at once
2025  Thea|               on having a pedigree of twenty-five ancestors, which goes back
2026  Thea|             care nothing?—any one may twist and turn the words ‘knowing’
2027  Thea|               alone opinion turns and twists about, and becomes alternately
2028 Intro|               there have been various types, but they have all a family
2029 Intro|           some men, ‘quod semper quod ubique’ or individual private judgment.
2030 Intro|                and that experience is ultimately resolvable into facts which
2031  Thea|          pride, more than cutting the umbilical cord. And if you reflect,
2032 Intro|               sign of themselves when unaccompanied with pain, and even when
2033 Intro|             and sensations were still unanalyzed. At last we return to the
2034 Intro|           answer is given to this not unanswerable question. The comparison
2035 Intro|              it seeks to satisfy some unanswered question or is based upon
2036  Thea|           about them; for they may be unassailable, and those who say that
2037  Thea|            thrust out of sight by the unbidden guests who will come pouring
2038 Intro|             of Berkeley, while giving unbounded license to the imagination,
2039 Intro|             and consequences. New and unchangeable properties of space are
2040  Thea|              or hot, could this, when unchanged from within, become changed
2041  Thea|               when taken by itself is uncompounded; nor can one rightly attribute
2042  Thea|               are perched a number of unconnected senses, which do not all
2043  Thea|                for our tongue will be unconvinced, but not our mind. (In allusion
2044  Thea|              may appear a strange and uncouth term to you, and that you
2045  Thea|              hard from being soft, or undergoes any other change, may not
2046  Thea|             me, and have been off and underground in a trice. But as he is
2047  Thea|                but I certainly cannot undertake to argue that madmen or
2048 Intro|            nominalism ‘La science est une langue bien faite.’ But
2049  Thea|        obliged to me if I help you to unearth the hidden ‘truth’ of a
2050  Thea|             us not leave the argument unfinished, then; for there still remains
2051 Intro|               mysteries I am about to unfold to you are far more ingenious.
2052 Intro|              the mind. But this is an unfortunate and inexpressive way of
2053 Intro|       philosophical idealism have not unfrequently parted company with practice.
2054 Intro|              of the fair soul and the ungainly face and frame, the Silenus
2055 Intro|            sense remained certain and uniform. Hardness, softness, cold,
2056  Thea|               attention and study, is uninformed, and speedily forgets whatever
2057  Thea|               either intentionally or unintentionally he is talking nonsense?~
2058  Thea|            thorough knowledge of what unions are likely to produce a
2059  Thea|            are incommensurable by the unit: he selected other examples
2060  Thea|              agent; and that which by uniting with something becomes an
2061 Intro|              number, is more than the units which are contained in it;
2062 Intro|            are unknown to us? Can two unknowns make a known? Can a whole
2063  Thea|          together man and woman in an unlawful and unscientific way; and
2064      | unlikely
2065 Intro|               of the real, though not unlimited, freedom of the human will: (
2066 Intro|             is the secret power which unlocks their thoughts. The hit
2067  Thea|     esse-percipi theory appears to be unmistakably refuted, since in dreams
2068 Intro|         unconscious and may pass away unnoted; they may also leave an
2069 Intro|              me, but the same wine is unpleasant to me when I am ill. And
2070 Intro|              himself. When simple and unpretentious, it is least obscured by
2071 Intro|               his intention is not to unravel the whole subject of knowledge,
2072 Intro|               is seen only through an unreal medium. If all that exists
2073 Intro|              We may think of space as unresisting matter, and of matter as
2074  Thea|          apprehension which is almost unrivalled, and he is exceedingly gentle,
2075 Intro|               us appears singular and unsatisfactory. The existence of true opinion
2076  Thea|              woman in an unlawful and unscientific way; and yet the true midwife
2077 Intro|         before. He himself has become unsettled, but the laws of the world
2078 Intro|             must have seemed quite as untenable to Plato as to a modern
2079 Intro|            about the future? Would an untrained man, for example, be as
2080 Intro|      confounded with uncertainty. The untutored mind is apt to suppose that
2081  Thea|               the truth is, that I am unused to your game of question
2082 Intro|             of thought, which, though unverified, must always remain the
2083  Thea|             care that we do not again unwittingly expose ourselves to the
2084  Thea|               to approach in a spirit unworthy of him. I met him when he
2085  Thea|        Heracleitus are most energetic upholders of the doctrine.~SOCRATES:
2086  Thea|               he draws the other into upper air, and gets him out of
2087  Thea|            deprived him of growth and uprightness and independence; dangers
2088  Thea|              as the saying is, turned upside down.~THEAETETUS: I believe,
2089  Thea|              of all, which I strongly urge, is the golden chain in
2090 Intro|        serious objection which may be urged against this doctrine of
2091  Thea|             things which we have been urging on his behalf, and then
2092  Thea|            the idea that they will be useful in after-time; which, in
2093 Intro|        carried on, a clearing away of useless abstractions which we have
2094 Intro|         mother bold and bluff, and he ushers into light, not children,
2095 Intro|          principal subjects which are usually comprehended under it; fourthly,
2096 Intro|               are to the Epicurean or Utilitarian philosopher only names which
2097  Thea|              in them is more than the utmost powers of negation can express.
2098 Intro|           calls them up, and they are uttered by the lips. This is the
2099 Intro|              of Megarians and Cynics.~V. Having rejected the doctrine
2100 Intro|             surrounds them; it is the vacuum or void which they leave
2101 Intro|               Plato and Socrates were vainly trying to find new combinations
2102  Thea|             all.~SOCRATES: You make a valiant defence, Theaetetus. And
2103  Thea|            got rid of their senseless vanity. Now, in all these cases
2104 Intro|            out of the imperfection or variation of the human senses, or
2105 Intro|             observes the ‘concomitant variations’ of body and mind. Psychology,
2106 Intro|               to be only more refined varieties of touch. All of them are
2107  Thea|           same moment. The senses are variously named hearing, seeing, smelling;
2108 Intro|               object and the eye, and varying in the case of every percipient.
2109  Thea|           leader himself, Parmenides, venerable and awful, as in Homeric
2110  Thea|             thought by the voice with verbs and nouns, imaging an opinion
2111 Intro|               is not altered, nor the verification of causes by prescribed
2112 Intro|              when translated into the vernacular.~I.a. Psychology is inseparable
2113 Intro|              De Anim.) says, citing a verse of Empedocles, ‘affirmed
2114 Intro|               venture to say that the vestiges are altogether lost, or
2115 Intro|            finds that he has been the victim of his own fancies; he has
2116 Intro|               sometimes also been the victims of them. But they have always
2117  Thea|                without having won the victory, we walk away from the argument
2118 Intro|             they both right? Is not a vine-grower a better judge of a vintage
2119  Thea|          ludicrous!~SOCRATES: And the vinegrower, if I am not mistaken, is
2120 Intro|     misrepresented Protagoras without violating the laws of dramatic probability.
2121 Intro|            wake of a morning or after violent exercise. Time, place, the
2122 Intro|               compared with their own visions and aspirations; but they
2123 Intro|             Theodorus whether, in his visit to Athens, he has found
2124  Thea|              had really persuaded his visitors that neither a prophet nor
2125  Thea|     impression of memory to the right visual impression, and to fit this
2126 Intro|             sensation, reflection, or volition. As there are various degrees
2127 Intro|        disciples. For he was really a votary of that famous philosophy
2128 Intro|             see nor hear the laws and votes of the state, written or
2129 Intro|               and O, a sibilant and a vowel, of which no further explanation
2130  Thea|           letters, again, are neither vowel-sounds nor noises. Thus letters
2131  Thea|             them, which are the seven vowels, have a sound only, but
2132 Intro|            Pindar says, is going on a voyage of discovery, measuring
2133 Intro|              as, for example, when we wake of a morning or after violent
2134 Intro|             perplexed by doubts which warred against the plainest facts.~
2135 Intro|               are not like the Trojan warriors in the horse, but have a
2136 Intro|              investigations it may be wasting the lives of those who are
2137 Intro|            continuous image, like the wave in the Republic, appearing
2138 Intro|            lifting up of the mist. It wavered between object and subject,
2139 Intro|               and like dreaming has a wayward and uncertain power of recalling
2140 Intro|           because its foundations are weak, and in many places rest
2141  Thea|            any argument which you may weave for him. But I am not disposed
2142 Intro|            were saying or doing a few weeks or a few months ago, and
2143 Intro|              other of our ideas, e.g. weight, motion, and the like. And
2144 Intro|             accepted by Christian and Western nations. Yet in modern times
2145  Thea|             that a waggon consists of wheels, axle, body, rims, yoke.~
2146      | whereby
2147      | wherever
2148 Intro|           Theaetetus or Theodorus (or whichever of the company would not
2149      | whither
2150      | whoever
2151 Intro|        Physiology, or Mathematics are wholes: that is to say, it is not
2152 Intro|       language, being neither able to win acceptance for the one nor
2153 Intro|          comparing his conceptions to wind-eggs, asserting an hereditary
2154  Thea|       difficulty is looking in at the window.~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
2155 Intro|      apertures of the mind, doors and windows through which we take in
2156  Thea|           fine theory has again taken wings and departed.~THEAETETUS:
2157  Thea|             at this point; and having wiped out of your memory all that
2158  Thea|              about in the aviary, and wishing to capture a certain sort
2159 Intro|             them with one another. It withdraws from the seen that it may
2160  Thea|             smother the embryo in the womb.~THEAETETUS: They can.~SOCRATES:
2161  Thea|           notwithstanding which he is wonderfully liberal.~SOCRATES: He must
2162 Intro|                is one of the greatest wonders of mind...This process however
2163  Thea|            but a white thing, whether wood or stone or whatever the
2164  Thea|        image-makers,’ or of any other workers. How can a man understand
2165 Intro|            saying that the arm of the workman is stronger than the constructing
2166 Intro|             of them, and ‘leave not a wrack behind;’ or they may survive
2167  Thea|               to look on at the naked wrestlers, some of them making a poor
2168 Intro|               is reversed; the little wretch turns giddy, and is ready
2169 Intro|               to Plato as to a modern writer. In this dialogue a great
2170  Thea|               at the time of learning writes the name of Theaetetus,
2171 Intro|         nature of man into a new one, wrought by shame or by some other
2172  Thea|         taller than you, may within a year, without gaining or losing
2173  Thea|             wheels, axle, body, rims, yoke.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
2174  Thea|             in saying that you have a zeal for virtue, and then always
2175 Intro|            orphan,” has not been very zealous in defending him.’~Theodorus
2176 Intro|                eoe, to ergon e os nun zeteitai prostatteis.~f. Lastly,