Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|      or burning, and a natural instrument with which men cut or burn,
 2 Intro|     process, and with a proper instrument. We cut with a knife, we
 3 Intro|        to me to be the general instrument which the legislator has
 4 Intro|        their aid, of which the instrument is not the tongue only,
 5 Intro|        or shortening the vocal instrument, by greater or less stress,
 6 Text |    please, and with any chance instrument; but we cut with the proper
 7 Text |     but we cut with the proper instrument only, and according to the
 8 Text |     natural way, and the right instrument the natural instrument.~
 9 Text |   right instrument the natural instrument.~HERMOGENES: True.~SOCRATES:
10 Text |   spoken, and with the natural instrument? Any other mode of speaking
11 Text |     process, and with a proper instrument, and not at our pleasure:
12 Text |        good: then a name is an instrument?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~
13 Text |      that I ask, ‘What sort of instrument is a shuttle?’ And you answer, ‘
14 Text |     And you answer, ‘A weaving instrument.’~HERMOGENES: Well.~SOCRATES:
15 Text |       Regarding the name as an instrument, what do we do when we name?~
16 Text |    SOCRATES: Then a name is an instrument of teaching and of distinguishing
17 Text |         And the shuttle is the instrument of the weaver?~HERMOGENES:
18 Text |       a man has discovered the instrument which is naturally adapted
19 Text |      he may be making the same instrument for the same purpose, make
20 Text |        may vary, and still the instrument may be equally good of whatever
21 Text |   through all this, and is the instrument of creation in all, and
22 Text |        to me to be the general instrument expressing all motion (kinesis).
23 Text |  imposer of names an excellent instrument for the expression of motion;


The First Alcibiades
   Part
24 Text |        And in the same way the instrument of the harper is to be distinguished
25 Text |      perfect, and which is the instrument of vision, will there see


Gorgias
   Part
26 Intro| proposed use of rhetoric as an instrument of self-condemnation; and
27 Text |   thing, whether body or soul, instrument or creature, when given


Laches
   Part
28 Text |      the lyre, or any pleasant instrument of music; for truly he has


Laws
   Book
29 2    |   tasteless. The use of either instrument, when unaccompanied, leads
30 5    | numerical order; for no single instrument of youthful education has
31 9    |        be unarmed or have some instrument or dart in his hand; or


Meno
   Part
32 Intro|       behind him a most potent instrument, the forms of logic— arms


Phaedo
   Part
33 Text |      when using the body as an instrument of perception, that is to


The Republic
   Book
34 3    |      training is a more potent instrument than any other, because
35 3    |      as I conceive, is not the instrument with which they cure the
36 3    |         like the strings of an instrument) may be relaxed or drawn
37 7    |     the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by
38 7    |        them on the pegs of the instrument: I might carry on the metaphor
39 9    |      very faculty which is the instrument of judgment is not possessed
40 9    |    reasoning is peculiarly his instrument? ~Certainly. ~If wealth
41 10   |       told by him? ~True. ~The instrument is the same, but about the


The Sophist
   Part
42 Text |        which is produced by an instrument, and another in which the
43 Text |      appearance is himself the instrument.~THEAETETUS: What do you


The Statesman
   Part
44 Intro|       or ought to be, a better instrument of description than any
45 Text |   anything in the world is the instrument of doing something. But
46 Text |    that is to say, not like an instrument, framed for production,


Theaetetus
   Part
47 Intro|       through some new optical instrument limiting the sphere of vision,


Timaeus
   Part
48 Intro|      the same mastery over his instrument which he exhibits in the
49 Intro|        matter (Rep.), a little instrument out of which to create a
50 Intro|   number as a form and also an instrument of thought is ever present