(...) The Republic
    Book
501 5    |          good as to answer one more question? Would you say that knowledge
502 5    |        opinion is intermediate? ~No question. ~But were we not saying
503 6    |     consider. ~And what is the next question? he asked. ~Surely, I said,
504 6    |          can we rightly answer that question? ~Whichever of the two are
505 6    |            I said, can there be any question that the guardian who is
506 6    |           no eyes? ~There can be no question of that. ~And are not those
507 6    |             use to them? ~You ask a question, I said, to which a reply
508 6    |             the majority bad, which question of necessity brought us
509 6    |             their own purposes? ~No question. ~Falling at his feet, they
510 6    |           bastard? ~There can be no question of it. ~And when persons
511 6    |            is there remaining? ~The question how the study of philosophy
512 6    |          disposed of, but the other question of the rulers must be investigated
513 6    |              not liking to stir the question which has now arisen. ~I
514 6    |          difficulties in which this question is involved. ~There can
515 7    |             the passing shadow? ~No question, he replied. ~To them, I
516 7    |         would put him to death. ~No question, he said. ~This entire allegory,
517 7    |            and they will fight. ~No question. Who, then, are those whom
518 7    |     compelled to ask of thought the question, What is a finger? for the
519 7    |     calculation will be enough; the question relates rather to the greater
520 8    |            you were speaking. ~That question, I said, is easily answered:
521 9    |         however, I said, a previous question which remains unanswered. ~
522 9    |           remains unanswered. ~What question? ~I do not think that we
523 9    |           such men treacherous? ~No question. ~Also they are utterly
524 9    |             are in dispute, and the question is not which life is more
525 9    |            kinds of virtue? Put the question in this way: Which has a
526 9    |           ask him to answer another question: "Then how would a man profit
527 10   |        rather, answer me. ~Put your question. ~Can you tell me what imitation
528 10   |          Now let me ask you another question: Which is the art of painting
529 10   |         many to speak so well? ~The question, he said, should by all
530 10   |         Then, I said, we must put a question to Homer; not about medicine,
531 10   |            means. ~We may state the question thus: Imitation imitates
532 10   |             I need hardly raise the question again, for I remember that


The Seventh Letter
    Part
533 Text |       Temperance also is out of the question for such a man; and the
534 Text |             as exile addressed this question to me: “Plato, I have come
535 Text |           satisfy those who put the question why I came a second time,
536 Text |            must put to the test the question whether Dionysios had really
537 Text |       testing by men who proceed by question and answer without ill will,


The Sophist
    Part
538 Intro|    midwifery, though the fiction of question and answer is still maintained,
539 Intro|         there arises an interesting question:—~Many words are used both
540 Intro|     particular tenets.~But the real question is, not whether the word ‘
541 Intro|          class of Sophists? To this question we must answer, No: if ever
542 Intro|             and had often heard the question discussed;— such an anticipation
543 Intro|           the true teacher.~II. The question has been asked, whether
544 Intro|         Not-being: How could such a question arise at all, much less
545 Intro|            is inclined to leave the question, merely remarking that the
546 Intro|       Not-being. In the Sophist the question is taken up again; the nature
547 Intro|         been already asked the same question by Theodorus and Theaetetus;
548 Intro|          the form of a speech or of question and answer. He prefers the
549 Intro|         incapable of answering this question, we may as well reply for
550 Intro|         speech; let us ask the same question about words which we have
551 Intro|           have been attached to the question which is so full of meaning
552 Intro|             manner of regarding the question. For Plato is answering
553 Intro|             said on both sides of a question. We may be recommended to
554 Intro|           of Hegel. There can be no question of the importance of showing
555 Intro|    understanding sees one side of a question only—the common sense of
556 Text |           not object to discuss the question. What do you say, Stranger?~
557 Text |        Socrates, almost on the very question which we were asking our
558 Text |            proceed by the method of question and answer. I remember hearing
559 Text |             such a short and simple question. At the same time, I fear
560 Text |          means.~STRANGER: The first question about the angler was, whether
561 Text |             the two. And as to your question concerning the name which
562 Text |        arrive at the answer to this question.~THEAETETUS: How?~STRANGER:
563 Text |             to say in answer to any question is written down in a popular
564 Text |             understand your present question.~STRANGER: I ask whether
565 Text |           remains a very perplexing question. Can any one say or think
566 Text |      serious then, and consider the question neither in strife nor play:
567 Text |     THEAETETUS: That is a difficult question, and one not to be answered
568 Text |       possibly answer the younker’s question?~THEAETETUS: We shall doubtless
569 Text |             that I am examining the question entirely out of regard for
570 Text |         demanding an answer to this question, either of the dualists
571 Text |           Then let them answer this question: One, you say, alone is? ‘
572 Text |         answering this or any other question.~THEAETETUS: Why so?~STRANGER:
573 Text |           STRANGER: Let us push the question; for if they will admit
574 Text |           you to consider a further question.~THEAETETUS: What question?~
575 Text |          question.~THEAETETUS: What question?~STRANGER: When we speak
576 Text |           being.~THEAETETUS: Beyond question.~STRANGER: What then shall
577 Text |     STRANGER: And thence arises the question, whether not-being mingles
578 Text |         THEAETETUS: And what is the question at issue about names?~STRANGER:
579 Text |          about names?~STRANGER: The question at issue is whether all


The Statesman
    Part
580 Intro|         difficulty in answering the question. But as nobody knows which
581 Intro|           knows which they did, the question must remain unanswered.
582 Intro|             here I will interpose a question: What are the true forms
583 Intro|            all?’ I will answer that question by asking you whether the
584 Intro|       Armenius, he touches upon the question of freedom and necessity,
585 Intro|             He touches upon another question of great interest—the consciousness
586 Intro|         world before the Fall, ‘the question must remain unanswered.’
587 Intro|         sensations? Yet perhaps the question what will or will not be
588 Intro|             revival of the Socratic question and answer applied to definition,
589 Intro|              The true answer to the question is relative to the circumstances
590 Intro|    legislator would have found this question more easy than we do. For
591 Intro|            taking care of them. The question is often asked, What are
592 Text |          the exact place was at the question, Where you would divide
593 Text |            unfortunate in raising a question about our experience of
594 Text |      correctly about the letters in question, and then to compare these
595 Text |           go on to consider another question, which concerns not this
596 Text |          SOCRATES: What is this new question?~STRANGER: Take the case
597 Text |              should we say that the question is intended to improve his
598 Text |             first, let me ask you a question.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What?~STRANGER:
599 Text |             his appointment, or any question to be asked—not even in
600 Text |         answer, let me ask the same question in reference to our previous
601 Text |     important, even if we leave the question where it is, and do not
602 Text |            true.~STRANGER: Then the question arises:—which of these untrue
603 Text |          him. Please to answer me a question.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What question?~
604 Text |      question.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What question?~STRANGER: There is such
605 Text |          how we shall consider that question.~STRANGER: We must extend


The Symposium
    Part
606 Intro|             host jest a little; the question is then asked by Pausanias,
607 Intro|      beautiful; and then arises the question, What does he desire of
608 Text |       dishonourable is not a simple question; they are honourable to
609 Text |             let me ask you one more question in order to illustrate my
610 Text |          but there is yet one small question which I would fain ask:—
611 Text |             A child may answer that question,’ she replied; ‘they are
612 Text |            or rather let me put the question more clearly, and ask: When
613 Text |           answer suggests a further question: What is given by the possession
614 Text |           beautiful, and repeat the question once more: If he who loves
615 Text |        difficulty in answering that question.’ ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘the


Theaetetus
    Part
616 Intro|             Sophist supplements the question of false opinion which is
617 Intro|          enthusiasm about the great question. Like a youth, he has not
618 Intro|             learn Socrates’ game of question and answer, and prefers
619 Intro|        spirit within us revives the question, which has been already
620 Intro|            to this not unanswerable question. The comparison of the mind
621 Intro|            be ‘really too bad.’~The question may be raised, how far Plato
622 Intro|             one view or aspect of a question is made to predominate over
623 Intro|       approaching and surrounding a question. The lights which he throws
624 Intro|           always hovering about the question involved in them. The analysis
625 Intro|             and now he has a little question to which he wants Theaetetus
626 Intro|         Theaetetus, I repeat my old question—“What is knowledge?” Take
627 Intro|       similar examples?—that is the question.’ ‘I am often perplexed
628 Intro|           induced by him to put the question in a new form. He proceeds
629 Intro|         that answer and ask another question: Is not seeing perceiving?’ ‘
630 Intro|           call, we must examine the question for ourselves. It is clear
631 Intro|          one. But this begins a new question. ‘Well, Socrates, we have
632 Intro|            if you ask any of them a question, they will not answer, but
633 Intro|              which is carried on in question and answer, until she no
634 Intro|           whereas the difficulty in question naturally arises owing to
635 Intro|           as not really solving the question which to us appears so simple: ‘
636 Intro|           becomes distinctness is a question of degree which cannot be
637 Intro|             mind or out of it, is a question which has no meaning. We
638 Intro|         them, is (like the parallel question about space) unmeaning.
639 Intro|        other persons.~2. The second question, namely, that concerning
640 Intro|              and we must repeat the question,—What becomes of the mind?
641 Intro|           be several answers to the question, Why the theory that all
642 Intro|             satisfy some unanswered question or is based upon some ancient
643 Intro|     education. But this is the real question. We cannot pursue the mind
644 Text | investigating. Will you answer me a question: ‘Is not learning growing
645 Text |       knowledge? Can we answer that question? What say you? which of
646 Text |           am unused to your game of question and answer, and I am too
647 Text |             was not the point of my question: we wanted to know not the
648 Text |      assuming that he who asked the question would understand from our
649 Text |      science is ridiculous; for the question is, ‘What is knowledge?’
650 Text |           difficulty as you put the question. You mean, if I am not mistaken,
651 Text |         Theaetetus, I repeat my old question, ‘What is knowledge?’—and
652 Text |           in reference to this last question, and if I were not afraid
653 Text |        SOCRATES: Do you see another question which can be raised about
654 Text |            waking?~THEAETETUS: What question?~SOCRATES: A question which
655 Text |          What question?~SOCRATES: A question which I think that you must
656 Text |              Certainly, putting the question as you do, that which is
657 Text |             way of putting a simple question, which is only, whether
658 Text |       myself: just now we asked the question, whether a man who had learned
659 Text |            now let me ask the awful question, which is this:—Can a man
660 Text |       Protagoras. Here arises a new question, Theodorus, which threatens
661 Text |            would not touch the real question—it would be a mockery, would
662 Text |           recognised, if we put the question in reference to the whole
663 Text |             one of his disciples, a question:—O, Protagoras, we will
664 Text |           Theodorus, to examine the question from the foundation as it
665 Text |      dwelling upon an argument or a question, and quietly asking and
666 Text |            If you ask any of them a question, he will produce, as from
667 Text |        their will; we must take the question out of their hands, and
668 Text |            motion appears to be the question with which we begin. What
669 Text |         forget to ask them the only question with which we are concerned:
670 Text |            let them in—besides, the question which is now stirring is
671 Text |            into the shade the other question of knowledge. Neither the
672 Text |          faculty would consider the question. It would not be sight or
673 Text |           whether I shall leave the question, or begin over again in
674 Text |      nothing to do with our present question.~THEAETETUS: There can be
675 Text |          Suppose that we remove the question out of the sphere of knowing
676 Text |           arguing on all sides of a question; whose dulness cannot be
677 Text |          for them lose sight of the question before us, which is the
678 Text |          distinguishes the thing in question from all others.~THEAETETUS:
679 Text |             now, when you asked the question?~SOCRATES: If, my boy, the
680 Text |          SOCRATES: And so, when the question is asked, What is knowledge?


Timaeus
    Part
681 Intro|        uncreated?—that is the first question. Created, I reply, being
682 Intro|             made?—that is the third question...The form of the perfect
683 Intro|            only?—that is the fourth question...One only. For if in the
684 Intro|          and the like.~Let me ask a question in which a great principle
685 Intro|          Plato himself proposes the question, Why does motion continue
686 Intro|         consider the much discussed question of the rotation or immobility
687 Intro|             sun; although the whole question depends on the relation
688 Intro|         accounts, and therefore the question can hardly be imagined to
689 Intro|         said on the one side of the question as on the other, and that
690 Intro|             design also, has been a question much disputed of late years.
691 Intro|     interesting and not unimportant question which is touched upon by
692 Text |             the name, I am asking a question which has to be asked at
693 Text |    impossible. And there is still a question to be asked about him: Which
694 Text |          them.~Let us consider this question more precisely. Is there
695 Text |          and only a name? Here is a question which we must not leave
696 Text |             however, who raises the question whether they are to be truly
697 Text |              another, regarding the question from another point of view,