(...) Protagoras
    Part
501 Text |              nature?’—Would they not answer that they are not evil on
502 Text |           the world in general would answer as you do.~And in causing
503 Text |            is overcome, is the first answer. And by what is he overcome?
504 Text |             for that of good. In our answer, then, we shall only say
505 Text |         conquering the evil’? And in answer to that we shall clearly
506 Text |             so far, be so good as to answer me a question: Do not the
507 Text |            furnishes a demonstrative answer to the question which you
508 Text |            us suppose this to be our answer to the world in general:
509 Text |          most excellent Prodicus, to answer in my sense of the words.~
510 Text |       Protagoras, that this was your answer.)~He assented.~Well then,
511 Text |            great ambition to make me answer, Socrates, and therefore


The Republic
    Book
512 1    |              poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does
513 1    |             as they imagine. I might answer them as Themistocles answered
514 1    |          medicine, and to whom, what answer do you think that he would
515 1    |              should not only ask but answer, and you should not seek
516 1    |          opponent, but have your own answer; for there is many a one
517 1    |           one who can ask and cannot answer. And now I will not have
518 1    |             asked he would refuse to answer, and try irony or any other
519 1    |             the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he
520 1    |            you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely
521 1    |              meaning?"-How would you answer him? ~Just as if the two
522 1    |            But what if I give you an answer about justice other and
523 1    |            he always does -refuse to answer himself, but take and pull
524 1    |          take and pull to pieces the answer of someone else. ~Why, my
525 1    |               I said, how can anyone answer who knows, and says that
526 1    |          knows. Will you then kindly answer, for the edification of
527 1    |             that he had an excellent answer, and would distinguish himself.
528 1    |          very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will
529 1    |           for I expect that you will answer well. ~Listen, then, he
530 1    |           begin at the beginning and answer me. You say that perfect
531 1    |            be vice and deformity, an answer might have been given to
532 1    |           But will you be so good as answer yet one more question? Does
533 1    |            you are saying or have no answer; if, however, I were to
534 1    |               if, however, I were to answer, you would be quite certain
535 1    |        rather ask, do so, and I will answer "Very good," as they say
536 1    |             I will ask and you shall answer. ~Proceed. ~Then I will
537 2    |          isolation to be effected? I answer: Let the unjust man be entirely
538 2    |            going to say something in answer to Glaucon, when Adeimantus,
539 2    |          often difficult; to which I answer, Nothing great is easy.
540 2    |          were not satisfied with the answer which I made to Thrasymachus,
541 2    |            you speaking-how shall we answer him? ~I said to him, You
542 2    |              proper image? ~I cannot answer you, he said, without more
543 3    |            are not in a condition to answer this question at present,
544 3    |              a good man (which is my answer to your question); for he
545 4    |              question: How would you answer, Socrates, said he, if a
546 4    |             I said, what will be our answer? ~Yes. ~If we proceed along
547 4    |            is that we shall find the answer. And our answer will be
548 4    |             find the answer. And our answer will be that, even as they
549 4    |         black-to him we might fairly answer: Sir, you would not surely
550 5    |              take heart yourself and answer the question in your own
551 5    |            my simple friend, but the answer is the reverse of easy;
552 5    |              not an easy question to answer when asked suddenly; and
553 5    |            that to give a sufficient answer on the instant is not easy;
554 5    |              if you don't prepare an answer, and put yourself in motion,
555 5    |      something or nothing? (You must answer for him). ~I answer that
556 5    |             must answer for him). ~I answer that he knows something. ~
557 5    |            you be so very good as to answer one more question? Would
558 5    |            which errs? ~An excellent answer, proving, I said, that we
559 6    |               And how can we rightly answer that question? ~Whichever
560 6    |            is your opinion. ~Hear my answer; I am of opinion that they
561 6    |           means. ~And let us ask and answer in turn, first going back
562 6    |             their notion of him, and answer in another strain. Who can
563 6    |             no jealousy? Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this
564 6    |              that you have heard the answer many times, and now you
565 6    |            the two main divisions to answer, one to the visible and
566 7    |             preceded will supply the answer; for if simple unity could
567 7    |          indivisible-what would they answer? ~They would answer, as
568 7    |             they answer? ~They would answer, as I should conceive, that
569 8    |              do you give me the same answer which you were about to
570 8    |       contentious and ambitious, who answer to the Spartan polity; also
571 8    |           arising; and this is their answer to us. ~Yes, and we may
572 8    |              we may assume that they answer truly. ~Why, yes, I said,
573 8    |               I said, of course they answer truly; how can the muses
574 9    |          Glaucon, taking his turn to answer. ~And will not he who has
575 9    |           then have someone who will answer our inquiries. ~By all means. ~
576 9    |            the subject and you shall answer my questions. ~Proceed. ~
577 9    |           supporter of justice makes answer that he should ever so speak
578 9    |            so far, we may ask him to answer another question: "Then
579 9    |            Glaucon, far worse-I will answer for him. ~Has not the intemperate
580 10   |             to me, then, or, rather, answer me. ~Put your question. ~
581 10   |              abominable crimes.) The answer of the other spirit was: "


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
582 Text |              have anything to say in answer to him, speak out.~ALCIBIADES:
583 Text |        Indeed, Socrates, I could not answer you without consideration.
584 Text |           the prophet made no direct answer,—clearly because he was


The Seventh Letter
    Part
585 Text |             can in word and deed. My answer is that, if you have the
586 Text |             him a merely perfunctory answer. But if a man does not consult
587 Text |         compel a man to give a clear answer about the fifth, any one
588 Text |              proceed by question and answer without ill will, with a


The Sophist
    Part
589 Intro|              fiction of question and answer is still maintained, and
590 Intro|            difficulty is solved; the answer, in the language of the
591 Intro|             To this question we must answer, No: if ever the term is
592 Intro|              serious importance? The answer to this, and to nearly all
593 Intro|            history of ideas, and the answer is only unsatisfactory because
594 Intro|     determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty about
595 Intro|             Being may be equally the answer to the difficulty about
596 Intro|      difficulty about Not-being.~The answer is, that in these and all
597 Intro|            speech or of question and answer. He prefers the latter,
598 Intro|            of all images?’ ‘I should answer, Such another, made in the
599 Intro|             to argue before they can answer. Yet, for the sake of the
600 Intro|              suffering? To this they answer—I am acquainted with them,
601 Intro|              to us appears to be the answer of common sense—that Not-being
602 Intro|            to be erroneous, he might answer in some such manner as the
603 Text |           and that he remembered the answer.~SOCRATES: Then do not,
604 Text |           the method of question and answer. I remember hearing a very
605 Text |            to show off. For the true answer will certainly be a very
606 Text |               There is only one true answer: he is the wonderful Sophist,
607 Text |          shall soonest arrive at the answer to this question.~THEAETETUS:
608 Text |            craftsman ought to say in answer to any question is written
609 Text |              tell you, and you shall answer me, giving your very closest
610 Text |        assenting into giving a hasty answer?~THEAETETUS: May I ask to
611 Text |        single out in reply, and what answer he would make to the enquirer?~
612 Text |      Theaetetus, how we can possibly answer the younker’s question?~
613 Text |            shall reply to them, ‘the answer is plainly that the two
614 Text |      impropriety in our demanding an answer to this question, either
615 Text |              STRANGER: Then let them answer this question: One, you
616 Text |       THEAETETUS: What will be their answer, Stranger?~STRANGER: It
617 Text |             are, and more willing to answer in accordance with the rules
618 Text |              may fail to catch their answer, which I recognize because
619 Text |        THEAETETUS: And what is their answer?~STRANGER: They deny the
620 Text |        THEAETETUS: I have nothing to answer on their behalf. Suppose
621 Text |             one then, who desires to answer truly, will adopt the third
622 Text |           the direction in which the answer may be expected.~THEAETETUS:
623 Text |           two divisions?~THEAETETUS: Answer yourself.~STRANGER: Upon


The Statesman
    Part
624 Intro|              we laws at all?’ I will answer that question by asking
625 Intro|             be said to have found an answer. Professor Campbell well
626 Intro|            the Socratic question and answer applied to definition, is
627 Intro|             no one would hesitate to answer—‘The rule of all rather
628 Intro|        political situation.~The true answer to the question is relative
629 Intro|          relation to morals? And the answer is to the same effect, that
630 Text |            do for me; to-day let him answer you.~STRANGER: Very good.
631 Text |         appeared rather too ready to answer that there were two species
632 Text |             as I should imagine, the answer would be easy. But until
633 Text |              when any one desires to answer an enquirer without any
634 Text |        called? Or rather, before you answer, let me ask the same question
635 Text |            exhibiting him. Please to answer me a question.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
636 Text |             YOUNG SOCRATES: I should answer that there is.~STRANGER:


The Symposium
    Part
637 Text |             not ill-prepared with an answer. For the day before yesterday
638 Text |        interrupted them, saying: not answer him, my dear Agathon; for
639 Text |          would be ridiculous; but to answer as you would, if I asked
640 Text |             son or daughter: and the answer would be right.~Very true,
641 Text |           the foolish?’ ‘A child may answer that question,’ she replied; ‘
642 Text |               Still,’ she said, ‘the answer suggests a further question:
643 Text |                I replied, ‘I have no answer ready.’ ‘Then,’ she said, ‘
644 Text |           man desires happiness; the answer is already final.’ ‘You
645 Text |             which they have in view? Answer me.’ ‘Nay, Diotima,’ I replied, ‘
646 Text |        beginning to say something in answer to the allusion which Socrates
647 Text |             For I know that I cannot answer him or say that I ought


Theaetetus
    Part
648 Intro|       Sophist may be regarded as the answer to the problems about One
649 Intro|       Socrates’ game of question and answer, and prefers the digressions
650 Intro|             that which he knows?’ No answer is given to this not unanswerable
651 Intro|           What then is knowledge? We answer (3), ‘True opinion, with
652 Intro|              of the work renders the answer to both these questions
653 Intro|        possible source from which an answer to these questions can be
654 Intro|         dialogue a great part of the answer of Protagoras is just and
655 Intro|              to the rest) to find an answer. Without further preface,
656 Intro|              Theodorus is too old to answer questions, and begs him
657 Intro|          Socrates rejoins, that this answer contains too much and also
658 Intro|             God you will discover an answer.’ ‘My answer is, that knowledge
659 Intro|             discover an answer.’ ‘My answer is, that knowledge is perception.’ ‘
660 Intro|              contradicting my former answer.’~‘And if you say “Yes,”
661 Intro|      objection, I will now state the answer. Protagoras would deny the
662 Intro|          therefore I will leave that answer and ask another question:
663 Intro|                he will say, ‘with an answer which I should not have
664 Intro|         foolish. How will Protagoras answer this argument? For he cannot
665 Intro|      personal, when he is abused, in answer to his adversaries (for
666 Intro|              question, they will not answer, but dart at you some unintelligible
667 Intro|          does he perceive? The first answer is, that he perceives sights
668 Intro|           things? Let us try another answer in the sphere of being: ‘
669 Intro|           carried on in question and answer, until she no longer doubts,
670 Intro|           sense. We of course should answer at once: ‘No; the alternative
671 Intro|              opinion, Theaetetus, in answer to Socrates, proceeds to
672 Intro|        different from the parts? The answer of experience is that they
673 Intro|  characteristic mark, which seems to answer to the logical definition
674 Intro|              knowledge, in which the answer to the whole discussion
675 Intro|         which a man utters being the answer to some other word spoken
676 Text |               or ‘disagreed,’ in the answer, lest the repetition of
677 Text |              investigating. Will you answer me a question: ‘Is not learning
678 Text |            What is knowledge? Can we answer that question? What say
679 Text |            your game of question and answer, and I am too old to learn;
680 Text |               Well, Socrates, I will answer as you and he bid me; and
681 Text |          brick-makers; would not the answer be ridiculous?~THEAETETUS:
682 Text |            would understand from our answer the nature of ‘clay,’ merely
683 Text |             knowledge is, to give in answer the name of some art or
684 Text |         SOCRATES: Moreover, he might answer shortly and simply, but
685 Text |      Socrates, to give you a similar answer about knowledge, which is
686 Text |     beginning just now; let your own answer about roots be your model,
687 Text |           that I have a satisfactory answer to give, nor hear of any
688 Text |              and have not the wit to answer them myself, is very just—
689 Text |         midwife, and do your best to answer the questions which I will
690 Text |            increasing, how would you answer him, Theaetetus?~THEAETETUS:
691 Text |              contradicting my former answer.~SOCRATES: Capital! excellent!
692 Text |            keep up your spirits, and answer like a man what you think.~
693 Text |               that I have nothing to answer, because you rebuked me
694 Text |            my meaning.~THEAETETUS: I answer, they are unlike.~SOCRATES:
695 Text |       Theaetetus again; he seemed to answer very nicely.~SOCRATES: If
696 Text |              us, and let the younger answer; he will incur less disgrace
697 Text |              THEODORUS: How shall we answer, Theaetetus?~THEAETETUS:
698 Text |             has closed, how will you answer the inevitable man?~THEAETETUS:
699 Text |            man?~THEAETETUS: I should answer, ‘Not with that eye but
700 Text |              I do not ask or bid you answer in what sense you know,
701 Text |      reinforce his position? Shall I answer for him?~THEAETETUS: By
702 Text |             seriousness, and ask and answer one another, for you see
703 Text |           nothing personal to say in answer to the civilities of his
704 Text |        Indeed, I do not know what to answer; but I think they would
705 Text |               we corrected our first answer in our eagerness to prove
706 Text |            nothing is at rest, every answer upon whatever subject is
707 Text |         faith, but should prepare to answer Socrates in the remainder
708 Text |             but ask him, and he will answer.~SOCRATES: Nevertheless,
709 Text |               and I believe that the answer which you have just given
710 Text |              had better allow you to answer for yourself and not interfere.
711 Text |           Indeed, Socrates, I cannot answer; my only notion is, that
712 Text |            way in which you ought to answer, Theaetetus, and not in
713 Text |            else? And suppose that we answer, ‘Yes, he can, when he thinks
714 Text |              true.’—That will be our answer?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
715 Text |            for I do not know what to answer if any one were to ask me:—
716 Text |          only thought: How would you answer him?~THEAETETUS: I should
717 Text |             when added together, and answer that they are eleven, while
718 Text |               but, as you like me to answer at once, I shall hazard
719 Text |              equally approve of your answer.~THEAETETUS: Yes; the answer
720 Text |         answer.~THEAETETUS: Yes; the answer is the point.~SOCRATES:
721 Text |       anything, he should be able to answer his questioner by giving
722 Text |              we should be content to answer, that a waggon consists
723 Text |              this fair argument will answer ‘Right opinion with knowledge,’—


Timaeus
    Part
724 Intro|              do not know, the safest answer is to reply that they are
725 Intro|            fires visible to sense? I answer in a word: If mind is one
726 Intro|           not cease from motion? The answer is, that the circular motion
727 Intro|              the motions of the soul answer the motions of the universe,
728 Intro|            sometimes been thought to answer to God the Father; or the
729 Intro|             and which can receive no answer, or at least only an answer
730 Intro|          answer, or at least only an answer of the same kind as the
731 Intro|            the human soul is divided answer to a series of numbers 1,
732 Text |            far the safest and truest answer is, That is gold; and not