Charmides
   Part
 1 Text |            sort of supposition and fiction to be the true definition


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|            one. It has a favourite fiction that one word is put in
 3 Intro|            another. It has another fiction, that a word has been omitted:
 4 Intro|          Greek sentence is another fiction of the same kind, which


Critias
   Part
 5 Intro|           been imposed upon by the fiction. As many attempts have been


Gorgias
   Part
 6 Intro|        often a sort of dialectical fiction, by which he conducts himself
 7 Intro|       clothes, Tale of a Tub). The fiction seems to have involved Plato
 8 Intro|      office of a poet or writer of fiction is not merely to give amusement,
 9 Intro|             the much less artistic fiction of the foundation of the
10 Intro|  represented in a picture: (9) the fiction of the earth-born men (Republic;
11 Intro|      picture. The structure of the fiction is very slight, the chief


Menexenus
   Part
12 Intro|           the great historian. The fiction of the speech having been


Parmenides
   Part
13 Intro|       places at once. It is a mere fiction; and we may observe that


Phaedrus
   Part
14 Intro|          subject, not of poetry or fiction, but of philosophy.~Secondly,


Philebus
   Part
15 Text |      others both in reality and in fiction, but powerless ignorance


Protagoras
   Part
16 Intro|         Plato, like all writers of fiction, aims only at the probable,


The Republic
   Book
17 2    |       censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive
18 2    |        censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject
19 2    |  well-ordered commonwealth. Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. ~
20 3    |       words to utter the audacious fiction, which I propose to communicate
21 3    |            Enough, however, of the fiction, which may now fly abroad
22 6    |            I must have recourse to fiction, and put together a figure


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
23 Pre  |            quite lately’ is only a fiction, probably suggested by the


The Sophist
   Part
24 Intro|          his midwifery, though the fiction of question and answer is


The Statesman
   Part
25 Intro|           resources of a writer of fiction to give credibility to his
26 Intro|         giving verisimilitude to a fiction are practised in both dialogues,


The Symposium
   Part
27 Intro|              Symp.), is not a mere fiction of Plato’s, but seems actually


Theaetetus
   Part
28 Intro|            should we interpose the fiction of time between ourselves
29 Intro| environment of circumstances, is a fiction only. Yet facts which are
30 Intro|            true gather around this fiction and are naturally described


Timaeus
   Part
31 Intro|           America. It realized the fiction so natural to the human
32 Intro|            all imposed upon by the fiction. It was most prolific in
33 Intro|        lines, an indication of the fiction? It is only a legend that
34 Text |       yesterday described to us in fiction, we will now transfer to
35 Text |          of being a fact and not a fiction? How or where shall we find