Dialogue

 1 Intro|        the class of beasts. An error of this kind can only be
 2 Intro|      king. The first and grand error was in choosing for our
 3 Intro|        own; there was a lesser error also in our failure to define
 4 Intro|    there may be consistency in error as well as in truth. The
 5 Intro|        other, is a ‘tremendous error.’ Of the ideal or divine
 6 Intro|        to fall into the common error of passing from unity to
 7 Intro|       in the use of terms, the error of supposing that philosophy
 8 State|        you have fallen into an error which hereafter I think
 9 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What is the error?~STRANGER: I think that
10 State|   YOUNG SOCRATES: What was the error of which, as you say, we
11 State|        division?~STRANGER: The error was just as if some one
12 State|      here would be the sort of error which we must try to avoid.~
13 State|       likely to fall into that error.~YOUNG SOCRATES: We had
14 State|        there lay the source of error in our former division.~
15 State|  SOCRATES: What was this great error of which you speak?~STRANGER:
16 State|   lesser one, the other was an error on a much larger and grander
17 State|        a man; and this a great error. Again, we declared him
18 State|       and therefore the second error was not so great as the
19 State|      There, somewhere, lay our error; for we never included or
20 State|     surely notice that a great error was committed at the end
21 State|    mistaken, there has been an error here; for our simplicity
22 State|    desire to expose our former error, and also because we imagined
23 State|    also fall into the converse error of dividing other things
24 State| STRANGER: In the political art error is not called disease, but
25 State| discussion of it to expose the error which prevails in this matter.~
26 State|       greater and more ruinous error than any adherence to written
27 State|     aim, and to indicate their error.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite true.~