Charmides
   Part
 1 Intro| philosophers are vainly trying to define in words. In a similar spirit
 2 Text |        not evil: for temperance I define in plain words to be the


Cratylus
   Part
 3 Intro|     prepositions are used only to define the meaning of them with


Gorgias
   Part
 4 Intro|          figures; neither can you define rhetoric simply as an art


Laws
   Book
 5 1    |     Stranger. But how ought we to define courage? Is it to be regarded
 6 1    |         of the discussion, let me define the nature and power of
 7 4    |   moderate funeral,” but you must define what moderation is, and
 8 9    |           Athenian. And now I can define to you clearly, and without
 9 12   |           the law must attempt to define the different kinds in some


Meno
   Part
10 Intro|     figure and colour, and try to define them.’ Meno confesses his
11 Text |           definition of figure. I define figure to be that in which


Parmenides
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12 Intro|         out of your attempting to define abstractions, such as the
13 Intro|        employed in the attempt to define science, which after every
14 Text |         out of your attempting to define the beautiful, the just,


Phaedo
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15 Text |        the dialectical process we define as essence or true existence—


Phaedrus
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16 Intro|       proceeds with enthusiasm to define the royal art of dialectic
17 Text |     discourse, the speaker should define his several notions and
18 Text |   dialectical skill are unable to define the nature of rhetoric,
19 Text |           because medicine has to define the nature of the body and
20 Text |          with Tisias. Does he not define probability to be that which
21 Text |          speaking, and is able to define them as they are, and having


Philebus
   Part
22 Intro|      class. Again, we are able to define objects or ideas, not in
23 Intro|           sophisms and illusions, define and bring into relief some


Protagoras
   Part
24 Text |         if not, I will ask you to define your meaning, and I shall


The Republic
   Book
25 5    |            just because he cannot define and divide, and so know
26 6    |           of it-for the good they define to be knowledge of the good,
27 6    |      things which we describe and define; to all of them the term "
28 7    |           is able to abstract and define rationally the idea of good,


The Sophist
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29 Intro|      derided class; this tends to define the meaning. Or, again,
30 Intro|          analyze, to classify, to define, to ask what is the nature
31 Text |         regarded as three. But to define precisely the nature of
32 Text |        division?~STRANGER: Let us define piracy, man-stealing, tyranny,
33 Text |          The difficulty is how to define his art without falling
34 Text |          or essence, because they define being and body as one, and


The Statesman
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35 Intro|      error also in our failure to define the nature of the royal
36 Text |          corresponding parts, and define them; for if you try to
37 Text |          of the statesman we must define the nature of his office.~
38 Text |       Well, then, suppose that we define weaving, or rather that
39 Text |   STRANGER: Then suppose that you define the warp and the woof, for
40 Text |       YOUNG SOCRATES: How shall I define them?~STRANGER: As thus:
41 Text |       which we have undertaken to define. For when that part of the


Theaetetus
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42 Intro|           be filled up. We cannot define knowledge until the nature
43 Intro|            they could not at once define the true and pass beyond
44 Intro|          to Socrates, proceeds to define knowledge as true opinion,
45 Intro|          we cannot see or exactly define, though it may be necessary,
46 Intro|       connected system. We cannot define or limit the mind, but we
47 Text |       SOCRATES: In both cases you define the subject matter of each
48 Text |           other false; and do you define knowledge to be the true?~


Timaeus
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49 Intro|           no use in attempting to define or explain the first God