Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text |       I may not fall into some absurdity in stating the principle


Gorgias
   Part
 2 Intro|        to avert the inevitable absurdity by affirming that he and
 3 Text |     Heaven, Callicles, what an absurdity to think that we or any


Laws
   Book
 4 7    |        positive law is a great absurdity. Now, our laws and the whole
 5 10   |       compare the Gods without absurdity? Will he say that they are


Parmenides
   Part
 6 Intro|    appears to be the height of absurdity.~Perhaps there is no passage
 7 Intro|   intended to elicit a similar absurdity, which may be supposed to
 8 Intro|   there appear to me to be any absurdity in maintaining that the
 9 Intro|      Philebus). This is not an absurdity, but a truism. But I should
10 Text |  afraid that there would be an absurdity in assuming any idea of


Phaedo
   Part
11 Text |       also avoid the monstrous absurdity of supposing that the greater


Philebus
   Part
12 Intro|        mind would have been an absurdity. He would have insisted
13 Intro|      pure thought? Here is one absurdity, and not the only one, to
14 Intro|       For is there not also an absurdity in affirming that good is
15 Text |      SOCRATES: Is there not an absurdity in arguing that there is
16 Text |        there not yet a further absurdity in our being compelled to


Protagoras
   Part
17 Intro|      The manifest futility and absurdity of the explanation of (Greek),


The Republic
   Book
18 4    |    untrue, let us assume their absurdity, and go forward on the understanding


The Sophist
   Part
19 Intro| process of disorganization; no absurdity or inconsistency is too
20 Intro|     his own words, there is an absurdity in supposing that ‘harmony
21 Text |        rest, there would be no absurdity in calling motion stationary.~


The Symposium
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22 Intro|       of contradictories is an absurdity. His notion of love may
23 Text |      the lyre. Now there is an absurdity saying that harmony is discord


Theaetetus
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24 Intro|   possession saves us from the absurdity of supposing that we do
25 Intro|        idea of ourselves is an absurdity. The earth which is our
26 Intro|       stop—short of a manifest absurdity. Their inconsistency is
27 Intro|  implies in the Theaetetus, an absurdity.~e. The growth of the mind,
28 Text |       place, there would be an absurdity in assuming that he who
29 Text |         SOCRATES: And yet that absurdity is necessarily involved
30 Text |      us, because involving the absurdity that we should know and
31 Text |       That, again, would be an absurdity.~SOCRATES: Then shall we
32 Text |    again, is it not an extreme absurdity that he should suppose another


Timaeus
   Part
33 Intro|        is no kind or degree of absurdity or fancy in which the more