Dialogue

 1 Intro|          of the ancient physical philosopher. He has no notion of trying
 2 Intro|        atmosphere of the ancient philosopher, or understand how, under
 3 Intro|      between the opinions of one philosopher and another—between Aristotle
 4 Intro|       well aware that an ancient philosopher is to be interpreted from
 5 Intro|       the mouth of a Pythagorean philosopher, and not of Socrates. And
 6 Intro|         fashioned by any poet or philosopher to describe physical phenomena.
 7 Intro|        Locris, who are at once a philosopher and a statesman, and to
 8 Intro|       other was she herself, the philosopher and warrior goddess, so
 9 Intro|        Timaeus, who is a natural philosopher, will speak of the origin
10 Intro|      phenomena some physician or philosopher who was able to see the
11 Intro|         end the mathematician or philosopher must practise gymnastics,
12 Intro|         she presented to a Greek philosopher of the fourth century before
13 Intro|       appeared to the Greek. The philosopher himself was a child and
14 Intro| observation of nature. The Greek philosopher looked at the blue circle
15 Intro|          which to the eye of the philosopher looking inward, seemed to
16 Intro|           which pass through the philosopher’s mind, of resemblances
17 Intro|     analogy the ancient physical philosopher would have stood still;
18 Intro|        sometimes led the ancient philosopher to make corresponding differences
19 Intro|         of knowledge. The modern philosopher has always been taught the
20 Intro|      were possessed by the Greek philosopher; having the same power over
21 Intro|   mechanics, in which the modern philosopher expects to find them, and
22 Intro|          mind of the early Greek philosopher. He would have beheld the
23 Intro|        had led the great Eleatic philosopher to describe the nature of
24 Intro|     science. The modern physical philosopher is apt to dwell exclusively
25 Intro|       knowledge. But the ancient philosopher never experimented: in the
26 Intro|        of Timaeus, a Pythagorean philosopher, and therefore here, as
27 Intro|       impulse (Greek) of the one philosopher answers to the circular
28 Intro|        of Plato as a Pythagorean philosopher residing at Thebes in the
29 Intro|        Plato, though an idealist philosopher, is Greek and not Oriental
30 Intro|      said to be Crantor, a Stoic philosopher who lived a generation later
31 Timae|          perhaps, or rather some philosopher, who had the power of seeing