(...) The Republic
    Book
501 5    |               same time, that sort of thing would appear also to lie
502 5    |              doubles, that is, of one thing, and halves of another? ~
503 5    |            who love the truth in each thing are to be called lovers
504 6    |             of the true being of each thing, and who have in their souls
505 6    |           know the very truth of each thing? ~There can be no reason,
506 6    |               grievous that no single thing on earth is comparable to
507 6    |             was the doer of any great thing either to individuals or
508 6    |           death. This was the sort of thing which was being said, and
509 6    |               and light is no ignoble thing? ~Nay, he said, the reverse
510 7    |            said; and there is another thing which is likely, or rather
511 7    |             to the soul that the same thing is felt to be both hard
512 7    |              one; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite
513 7    |               probably know, the same thing happens. The teachers of
514 7    |             not. ~That, he said, is a thing of more than mortal knowledge. ~
515 7    |             than mortal knowledge. ~A thing, I replied, which I would
516 7    |             of ascertaining what each thing is in its own nature; for
517 7    |     conception of the essence of each thing? And he who does not possess
518 8    |              mixture, I said; but one thing, and one thing only, is
519 8    |                but one thing, and one thing only, is predominantly seen-the
520 8    |             and sees the same sort of thing: those who do their own
521 8    |             great mysteries, the next thing is to bring back to their
522 8    |               I have dreamed the same thing. ~And above all, I said,
523 8    |               then, tragedy is a wise thing and Euripides a great tragedian. ~
524 9    |              further imagine the same thing to happen to the son which
525 9    |      courtesans, and all that sort of thing; Love is the lord of the
526 10   |         really do not know. ~A likely thing, then, that I should know. ~
527 10   |            duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener. ~
528 10   |               knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of
529 10   |          without knowing what makes a thing good or bad, and may be
530 10   |              same time about the same thing? ~Very true. ~Then that
531 10   |                also, because no human thing is of serious importance,
532 10   |             less, but thinks the same thing at one time great and at
533 10   |           harmed), is surely an awful thing? ~Yes, certainly, if the
534 10   |            ten is surely but a little thing in comparison with eternity? ~
535 10   |             am attending. ~There is a thing which you call good and
536 10   |              that the body, being one thing, can be destroyed by the
537 10   |           that the soul, which is one thing, can be dissolved by any
538 10   |            said-and this is the first thing which you will have to give
539 10   |               and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
540 Text |               be two opposites to one thing?~ALCIBIADES: There cannot.~
541 Text |            your eyes a small and mean thing, should add to it the dominion
542 Text |               or himself to request a thing, if he is likely to suffer
543 Text |               that it would be a good thing to kill Pericles, your kinsman
544 Text |            you would really do such a thing; but there is nothing, you
545 Text |               enemy:—~‘...Full many a thing he knew; But knew them all
546 Text |            impossibility of knowing a thing badly: for it was no less
547 Text |              seems to me to be a wild thing (The Homeric word margos


The Seventh Letter
    Part
548 Text |            these, and that, if such a thing did come to pass, the result
549 Text |              eager about this sort of thing. But when confronted with
550 Text |        education, and this is the one thing in which a wise man will
551 Text |               honourably. For the one thing which is wholly right and
552 Text |               excellent laws; and the thing next in order, which he
553 Text |               the conclusion that the thing is difficult and impossible
554 Text |              I do not think it a good thing for men that there should
555 Text |              fifth, we must count the thing itself which is known and
556 Text |            case of all. A circle is a thing spoken of, and its name
557 Text |              just uttered. The second thing belonging to it is its definition,
558 Text |             attempt to show what each thing is like, not less than what
559 Text |               not less than what each thing is. For this reason no man
560 Text |              is opposite to the fifth thing. For everywhere it has contact
561 Text |           also that the name is not a thing of permanence for any of
562 Text |        seeking (i.e., the quality), a thing open to refutation by the
563 Text |              senses, being merely the thing presented to the soul in
564 Text |    overwhelmed by its force. The same thing caused Dion’s downfall.


The Sophist
    Part
565 Intro|               predicated of any other thing, how could truth be distinguished
566 Intro|            The saying or thinking the thing that is not, would be the
567 Intro|             not, who can say? But one thing we can say—that they went
568 Intro|          different names for the same thing? But how can there be two
569 Intro|               existence of some third thing, different from them both,
570 Intro|         giving many names to the same thing, e.g. white, good, tall,
571 Intro|          through all things, for each thing is other than all other
572 Intro|          excepted. And ‘being’ is one thing, and ‘not-being’ includes
573 Intro|           that there could be no such thing as falsehood, because there
574 Intro|             because there was no such thing as not-being, he may continue
575 Intro|           argue that there is no such thing as the art of image-making
576 Intro|         whether there could be such a thing as an appearance, because
577 Intro|             because there was no such thing as falsehood. At length
578 Intro|               of Plato: How could one thing be or become another? That
579 Intro|              is not, or that the same thing can be affected in the same
580 Intro|              to us that we regard the thing signified by them as absolutely
581 Text |            about the name, but of the thing to which we both apply the
582 Text |               understanding about the thing itself in terms of a definition,
583 Text |               some simple and smaller thing, unless you can suggest
584 Text |              definition as any larger thing? Shall I say an angler?
585 Text |           about the definition of the thing itself. One half of all
586 Text |            the Sophist; there was one thing which appeared to me especially
587 Text |            would mankind be if such a thing were possible!~SOCRATES:
588 Text |     dialectical net, and there is one thing which he decidedly will
589 Text |               breadth and depth, each thing receiving also its appropriate
590 Text |            great deal of this kind of thing in painting, and in all
591 Text |              doubt of that; for how a thing can appear and seem, and
592 Text |                or how a man can say a thing which is not true, has always
593 Text |           something must say some one thing?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
594 Text |              be attributed some other thing which is?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
595 Text |             things which are not or a thing which is not without number?~
596 Text |       something to be some other true thing, or what do you mean?~THEAETETUS:
597 Text |            Certainly not another true thing, but only a resemblance.~
598 Text |       accusations so serious. Yet one thing may be said of them without
599 Text |             offence—~THEAETETUS: What thing?~STRANGER: That they went
600 Text |           apply two names to the same thing?~THEAETETUS: What will be
601 Text |         distinguish the name from the thing, implies duality.~THEAETETUS:
602 Text |          identifies the name with the thing will be compelled to say
603 Text |            unity, and there be such a thing as an absolute whole, being
604 Text |            admit that there is such a thing as a mortal animal.~THEAETETUS:
605 Text |              That would be a dreadful thing to admit, Stranger.~STRANGER:
606 Text |              that being is some third thing, when we say that rest and
607 Text |                Here, then, is another thing which we ought to bear in
608 Text |      predicate many names of the same thing.~THEAETETUS: Give an example.~
609 Text |             or nothing with any other thing; or some things communicate
610 Text |               And now tell me another thing.~THEAETETUS: What?~STRANGER:
611 Text |               What is it?~STRANGER: A thing of which I have already
612 Text |     compelling them to admit that one thing mingles with another.~THEAETETUS:
613 Text |          exists, there can be no such thing as falsehood. And, with
614 Text |            sentence to you in which a thing and an action are combined,
615 Text |             saying, in regard to each thing or person, there is much
616 Text |        asserted that there is no such thing as an image or idol or appearance,
617 Text |              can there ever be such a thing as falsehood.~THEAETETUS:
618 Text |             go in pairs; there is the thing, with which the art of making
619 Text |           which the art of making the thing is concerned, and the image,


The Statesman
    Part
620 Intro|           existence there was no such thing as the procreation of animals
621 Intro|              a king; and yet the best thing of all is, not that the
622 Intro|            which, though not the best thing possible, is best for the
623 Intro|         although this is not the best thing of all, but only the second
624 Intro|               than none. And the best thing which they can do (though
625 Text |            mind is surely a desirable thing?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.~
626 Text |            STRANGER: There is another thing which I should like to know.~
627 Text |            STRANGER: Together? What a thing to ask! but, if you take
628 Text |                that there was no such thing in the then order of nature
629 Text |             in this manner? We take a thing and compare it with another
630 Text |         distinct instance of the same thing, of which we have a right
631 Text |               STRANGER: Then the next thing will be to separate them,
632 Text |            not manufacture the actual thing, but which furnish the necessary
633 Text |              a king, and yet the best thing of all is not that the law
634 Text |              the last and most absurd thing which he could say about
635 Text |       approved, although not the best thing in the world.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
636 Text |           regarded as the second best thing, if you set aside the first,
637 Text |         danger of this, the next best thing in legislating is not to
638 Text |             STRANGER: There is such a thing as learning music or handicraft
639 Text |            any, even the most trivial thing, out of bad and good materials


The Symposium
    Part
640 Intro|         successive days is such a bad thing.’ This is confirmed by the
641 Intro|               evil of Greek life as a thing not to be spoken of; but
642 Text |              wide open, and a comical thing happened. A servant coming
643 Text |       indignant tone:—‘What a strange thing it is, Eryximachus, that,
644 Text |   transgression, for there is no such thing as a lover’s oath. Such
645 Text |               to be a very honourable thing. But when parents forbid
646 Text |            stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable,
647 Text |            wisdom is a most beautiful thing, and Love is of the beautiful;
648 Text |            and woman, and is a divine thing; for conception and generation
649 Text |              despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover
650 Text |               to be sober, which is a thing not to be endured; you must
651 Text |              the discourse; the chief thing which he remembered was


Theaetetus
    Part
652 Intro|            way of expressing the same thing when he says, “Man is the
653 Intro|            know and not know the same thing at the same time. Or, if
654 Intro|         opinion, for there is no such thing; but he may be cured of
655 Intro|               expediency, or that the thing which seems is expedient
656 Intro|                For example; we know a thing to be hard or soft by the
657 Intro|              we know or do not know a thing (for the intermediate processes
658 Intro|           time; we cannot confuse one thing which we do not know, with
659 Intro|             do not know, with another thing which we do not know; nor
660 Intro|               touch some one existing thing? For if he thinks about
661 Intro|          opinion;—I mean, may not one thing be supposed to be another?
662 Intro|          saying to yourself, that one thing is another. But did you
663 Intro|           that we can never think one thing to be another; for you must
664 Intro|           known. No one can think one thing to be another, when he has
665 Intro|          either that there is no such thing as false opinion, or that
666 Intro|              And as we cannot see one thing without at the same time
667 Intro|             which we have last seen a thing is often the best way of
668 Intro|             after a long interval the thing which we have seen once
669 Intro|               new knowledge, but as a thing to which we ourselves impart
670 Text |              am asking for one simple thing.~THEAETETUS: What do you
671 Text |              very trivial and obvious thing—for example, What is clay?
672 Text |              light—there is no single thing or quality, but out of motion
673 Text |           eyes, and is not a distinct thing which exists out of them.
674 Text |             or affection of any other thing. The fact is that in our
675 Text |             not whiteness but a white thing, whether wood or stone or
676 Text |               meeting with some other thing is converted into a patient.
677 Text |               is no one self-existent thing, but everything is becoming
678 Text |                and offer you one good thing after another, that you
679 Text |        something—there can be no such thing as perceiving and perceiving
680 Text |          whether a person says that a thing is or becomes, he must say
681 Text |             we say that we know every thing which we see and hear? for
682 Text |            admit that there is such a thing as memory?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~
683 Text |               and do not see the same thing at the same time.~THEAETETUS:
684 Text |            distance, or know the same thing with more or less intensity,
685 Text |        remember and not know the same thing, and the boy said No, because
686 Text |            know and not know the same thing? Or, if he is afraid of
687 Text |               opinion?~THEODORUS: The thing is incredible, Socrates.~
688 Text |             to us to be true. And one thing which no one will deny is,
689 Text |               of the name, but of the thing which is contemplated under
690 Text |        company; tell me, then, when a thing changes from one place to
691 Text |            kind of motion. But when a thing, remaining on the same spot,
692 Text |              move in place, or is one thing moved in both ways, and
693 Text |            objects, the one becomes a thing of a certain quality, and
694 Text |             right: you may say that a thing is or is not thus; or, if
695 Text |              have a knowledge of that thing?~THEAETETUS: He cannot.~
696 Text |              knowing or not knowing a thing.~SOCRATES: That point being
697 Text |             he knows to be some other thing which he knows, and knowing
698 Text |           does not know as some other thing which he does not know;
699 Text |                But if he sees any one thing, he sees something that
700 Text |             He then who sees some one thing, sees something which is?~
701 Text |              anything, hears some one thing, and hears that which is?~
702 Text |            who thinks, think some one thing?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
703 Text |            not he who thinks some one thing, think something which is?~
704 Text |             which is, but he puts one thing in place of another; and
705 Text |              other self-contradictory thing, which works, not according
706 Text |               mind to conceive of one thing as another?~THEAETETUS:
707 Text |            when any one thinks of one thing as another, he is saying
708 Text |            saying to himself that one thing is another?~THEAETETUS:
709 Text |            convince yourself that one thing is another? Nay, not even
710 Text |           saying that you may learn a thing which at one time you did
711 Text |               1) No one can think one thing to be another when he does
712 Text |              can any mistaking of one thing for another occur, when
713 Text |             nor can he think that one thing which he does not know is
714 Text |              does not know is another thing which he does not know,
715 Text |               knows; nor (2) that one thing which he perceives is another
716 Text |               he perceives is another thing which he perceives, or that
717 Text |            agree, can he think that a thing which he knows and perceives
718 Text |              and perceives is another thing which he perceives; or that
719 Text |               he perceives; or that a thing which he does not know and
720 Text |                is the same as another thing which he does not know and
721 Text |          again, can he suppose that a thing which he does not know and
722 Text |       perceive is the same as another thing which he does not know;
723 Text |              does not know; or that a thing which he does not know and
724 Text |               not perceive is another thing which he does not perceive:—
725 Text |              a mistake does think one thing which he knows to be another
726 Text |          which he knows to be another thing which he knows; but this,
727 Text |            know and not know the same thing at the same time.~THEAETETUS:
728 Text |        suppose that we do a shameless thing?~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
729 Text |             learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of
730 Text |                not of this particular thing, but of some other;—when
731 Text |             he should suppose another thing to be this, and this to
732 Text |                and this to be another thing;—that, having knowledge
733 Text |             knowledge, about the same thing.~SOCRATES: I cannot help
734 Text |               we may stumble upon the thing which we are looking for;
735 Text |              to speak of this or that thing by itself alone. It should
736 Text |            and receive a reason for a thing, has no knowledge of that
737 Text |              has no knowledge of that thing; but when he adds rational
738 Text |              plural) is there not one thing which we express?~THEAETETUS:
739 Text |             of anything is the entire thing?~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
740 Text |             we not saying that when a thing has parts, all the parts
741 Text |            giving the elements of the thing.~THEAETETUS: As for example,
742 Text |               or thinks that the same thing is composed of different
743 Text |               friend, there is such a thing as right opinion united
744 Text |               which distinguishes the thing in question from all others.~
745 Text | distinguishing characteristic of each thing, then, as many persons affirm,
746 Text |        something differs from another thing, the proposal is ridiculous.~
747 Text |     differences which distinguish one thing from another when we have


Timaeus
    Part
748 Intro|      diversity of that and some other thing, and to tell how and when
749 Intro|             contact with any external thing; they say the same or the
750 Intro|             in a word: If mind is one thing and true opinion another,
751 Intro|             which has no qualities—‘a thing in itself’—a point which
752 Intro|             time, that truth is not a thing of yesterday or tomorrow,
753 Intro|           never reflects, how great a thing it was to have formed a
754 Intro|   geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing that a few pages of one
755 Intro|        sameness or difference of that thing and some other; and to what
756 Text |               It would be an unworthy thing to liken it to any nature
757 Text |           which is like any imperfect thing; but let us suppose the
758 Text |        sameness or difference of that thing and some other; and to what
759 Text |            contact with some external thing, either of the class of
760 Text |              and try to speak of each thing and of all. Once more, then,
761 Text |            whatever it may be, is one thing rather than another? No
762 Text |            thirdly, that of which the thing generated is a resemblance.
763 Text |              doing precisely the same thing. For we often separate earthy
764 Text |          disorder God created in each thing in relation to itself, and
765 Text |          Seeing that there is no such thing as a vacuum into which any
766 Text |          because there can be no such thing as a vacuum. Wherefore also
767 Text |           occur. For, as we affirm, a thing can only remain the same
768 Text |           best which is produced in a thing by itself, for it is most