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The Apology
Part
1 Text | quite a stranger to the language of the place; and therefore
Charmides
Part
2 PreS | render the words of one language into the words of another
3 PreS | which can be made of the language from which the translation
4 PreS | any rate it is couched in language which is very rarely obscure.
5 PreS | ought not to force upon one language the character of another.
6 PreS | owing to the genius of the language or some accident of composition,
7 PreS | expression which the English language is quite capable of supplying.
8 PreS | The structure of the Greek language is partly adversative and
9 PreS | perpendicular lines of the language; and the opposition or inference
10 PreS(1)| Language.~
11 PreS | few and far between. The language is distributed in a different
12 PreS | the harmony of the English language is to be preserved. And
13 PreS | are not so described in language; a ship is humorously supposed
14 PreS | the genius of the Greek language is the opposite of this.
15 PreS | mythology is common also in the language; and genders are attributed
16 PreS | The usage of the English language does not admit of the former,
17 PreS | the genius of the English language requires that the translation
18 PreS | the feeling of the modern language is more opposed to tautology,
19 PreS | connexion, by the law of his own language increased precision and
20 PreS | effect of the surrounding language. In general the style of
21 PreS | the capabilities of the language, and many of the expressions
22 PreS | force and beauty than other language, and a religious association,
23 PreS | meaning in the more definite language of modern philosophy. And
24 PreS | Dialogue; nor is the English language easily adapted to it. The
25 PreS | translating poetry. The language, too, is of a finer quality;
26 PreS | Psychology, and the Origin of Language. (There have been added
27 PreS | different conditions of language and civilization; but in
28 PreS | system had wholly permeated language, and therefore we must not
29 PreS | system. By such a use of language any premises may be made
30 PreS | Philol.). The great master of language wrote as clearly as he could
31 PreS | a system or a technical language.~Balliol College, October,
32 Intro | Socrates. Nothing in his language or behaviour is unbecoming
33 Text | true.~You know your native language, I said, and therefore you
Cratylus
Part
34 Intro | century B.C., on the nature of language been preserved to us; or
35 Intro | beginning to be asked about language which were parallel to other
36 Intro | beginnings of the study of language we know little, and there
37 Intro | Socrates. For the theory of language can only be propounded by
38 Intro | the ancients respecting language put together.~The dialogue
39 Intro | the conventional theory of language, which he acknowledges to
40 Intro | to imply that a perfect language can only be based on his
41 Intro | relation does his account of language stand to the rest of his
42 Intro | Cratylus, the three theories of language which are respectively maintained
43 Intro | whether applied to society or language, explains everything and
44 Intro | Hermogenes that his view of language is only a part of a sophistical
45 Intro | theorizers about the origin of language). He is at once a philosopher
46 Intro | for while wanting to rest language on an immutable basis, he
47 Intro | to derive all truth from language, and in language he sees
48 Intro | truth from language, and in language he sees reflected the philosophy
49 Intro | manner the union of the two. Language is conventional and also
50 Intro | accidental or exceptional in language. Some words have had their
51 Intro | combine in the formation of language. And the three views respectively
52 Intro | that ‘the legislator made language with the dialectician standing
53 Intro | regarded as the creator of language, according to Hellenic notions,
54 Intro | approaching the subject, language, like virtue in the Republic,
55 Intro | to express generally that language is the product of intelligence,
56 Intro | A better conception of language could not have been formed
57 Intro | bring Plato’s theory of language into accordance with the
58 Intro | the nature and origin of language, in which Adam Smith, Rousseau,
59 Intro | that Plato’s theory of language is not inconsistent with
60 Intro | age in his conception of language, as much as he is in his
61 Intro | rational explanation of language. Still he preserves his ‘
62 Intro | Onomatopoetic theory of language; that is to say, he supposes
63 Intro | construction of an ideal language. Or that he has any Eleatic
64 Intro | Cratylus.~The theory of language which is propounded in the
65 Intro | to receive our theory of language.~There remains a difficulty
66 Intro | illustrate a principle of language as well as a true one: 3.
67 Intro | age: 4. the philosophy of language had not made such progress
68 Intro | lecture on the philosophy of language, Socrates is also satirizing
69 Intro | the Heracleitean theory of language.~In the latter part of the
70 Intro | application not only to language but to knowledge generally;
71 Intro | the relation of thought to language is omitted here, but is
72 Intro | you must remember that all language is in process of change;
73 Intro | picture or figure—that is, language—is completed. Not that I
74 Intro | which the ancients framed language. And this leads me to consider
75 Intro | the most perfect form of language is found only where there
76 Intro | then, why, Socrates, is language so consistent? all words
77 Intro | doubt that the inventors of language gave names, under the idea
78 Intro | discovered the true principles of language, and then (II) proceed to
79 Intro | the origin and nature of language with the anticipations of
80 Intro | 1) Plato is aware that language is not the work of chance;
81 Intro | But he has no idea that language is a natural organism. He
82 Intro | theologian would have proved that language must have had a divine origin,
83 Intro | account of the origin of language ‘as an excuse for not giving
84 Intro | design and art enters into language. The creative power abating
85 Intro | say that the nobler use of language only begins when the frame-work
86 Intro | improver of the forms of language. He is the poet or maker
87 Intro | formative principles of language, when they have passed their
88 Intro | the decaying instinct of language, by rule and method, which
89 Intro | was acquainted with any language but Greek. Yet he has conceived
90 Intro | meaning. The framers of language were aware of this; they
91 Intro | insight into the nature of language. He does not expressively
92 Intro | indicating his meaning. And language is the gesture of the tongue;
93 Intro | step in the physiology of language. He was probably the first
94 Intro | the first who said that ‘language is imitative sound,’ which
95 Intro | distinctly affirms that language is not truth, or ‘philosophie
96 Intro | the flux of Heracleitus in language. But he is covertly satirising
97 Intro | conjugates, correlatives of language have anything corresponding
98 Intro | philosophical analysis of language teaches us is, that we should
99 Intro | that we should be above language, making words our servants,
100 Intro | like those of a foreign language, he is willing to admit
101 Intro | changing;—not the inventors of language, but writing and speaking,
102 Intro | and other subtleties of language escaped the observation
103 Intro | nor does he conceive of language as the joint work of the
104 Intro | charged with a desire to frame language on artificial principles.
105 Intro | technical or scientific language, in words which should have
106 Intro | Plato than there is of a language corresponding to the ideas;
107 Intro | could the want of such a language be felt until the sciences
108 Intro | essential characteristics of language. The great master has shown
109 Intro | conservative of the ancient language, loved the letters iota
110 Intro | to the furthest point, in language as in all the other creations
111 Intro | the most perfect state of language.’ These words suggest a
112 Intro | interest than the origin of language; viz. what is the ideal
113 Intro | viz. what is the ideal of language, how far by any correction
114 Intro | contain deeper truths about language than any other ancient writing.
115 Intro | the origin and nature of language? Like other modern metaphysical
116 Intro | There are more things in language than the human mind easily
117 Intro | account of the origin of language.~Speaking is one of the
118 Intro | uttered by a child in any language. Yet into the formation
119 Intro | been transmitted from one language to another; like the child
120 Intro | as well as speakers did language begin. Not the interjection
121 Intro | stage in the progress of language was accompanied by some
122 Intro | of dialects passed into a language. Then arose poetry and literature.
123 Intro | with each improvement of language the powers of the human
124 Intro | refined into a notion; how language, fair and large and free,
125 Intro | this or any other theory of language is proved by facts. It is
126 Intro | Only we seem to see that language is as much the creation
127 Intro | In the later analysis of language, we trace the opposite and
128 Intro | categories. So complex is language, and so expressive not only
129 Intro | the modern philosophy of language suggests to us about the
130 Intro | can discover the nature of language by reconstructing them. (
131 Intro | the danger of identifying language, not with thoughts but with
132 Intro | articulate from inarticulate language—the cries of animals from
133 Intro | thrown upon the nature of language by analogy. We have the
134 Intro | to think and speak a new language, of the deaf and dumb who
135 Intro | of mythology, which, like language, is an unconscious creation
136 Intro | appears to be the soul of language. We can compare the use
137 Intro | reluctance admitted to be a fact.~Language is an aspect of man, of
138 Intro | single force or life of language of which the thoughts of
139 Intro | enormous influence which language has exercised over thought.
140 Intro | representations we attribute to language too much the nature of a
141 Intro | single abstract notion of language of which all existent languages
142 Intro | phenomena. There is no abstract language ‘in rerum natura,’ any more
143 Intro | correspond to the facts of language; for they too are attempts
144 Intro | which this vast field of language admits of being mapped out.
145 Intro | of speech. The organs of language are the same in all mankind,
146 Intro | speaking.~Whether we regard language from the psychological,
147 Intro | secret of the origin of language, which, like some of the
148 Intro | Lectures on the Science of Language;’ Steinthal, ‘Einleitung
149 Intro | the inner structure of language has been laid bare; the
150 Intro | literary or principal form of a language is better understood. Many
151 Intro | no longer confused with language, nor the anatomy of words
152 Intro | stripped off; and we see language more as it truly was. The
153 Intro | philology calls up.~(1) Language seems to be composite, but
154 Intro | up the existing forms of language into their parts he will
155 Intro | primitive form or forms of language known to us, or to be reasonably
156 Intro | inference can be drawn from language, either for or against the
157 Intro | when applied to primitive language, it is probable that the
158 Intro | that the later stage of language is the result rather of
159 Intro | consonants. But who gave to language these primeval laws; or
160 Intro | in others; or why in one language there is a greater development
161 Intro | period every variety of language may have been in process
162 Intro | any traces of an original language still survive, any more
163 Intro | fancies—to whom the whole of language might in truth be said to
164 Intro | quickly ran through a whole language. For like the other gifts
165 Intro | we know of the origin of language that the real scholar is
166 Intro | a primitive or original language which it is time to leave
167 Intro | imported from a foreign language, and the like, in which
168 Intro | precisely the same. The laws of language are invariable, but no two
169 Intro | be still in dispute. Is language conscious or unconscious?
170 Intro | many things in the use of language which may be observed from
171 Intro | be our consciousness of language is really only the analysis
172 Intro | degree to the formation of language. ‘Which of us by taking
173 Intro | least of the causes by which language is affected, and is likely
174 Intro | from the mental element of language; they are really inseparable—
175 Intro | the lesser varieties of language which arise out of the many
176 Intro | question whether the laws of language, like the other laws of
177 Intro | superficial appearances of language, as of nature, are irregular,
178 Intro | comparison of the growth of language in the individual and in
179 Intro | hereditary or paternity of a language, we must remember that the
180 Intro | invention and improvement of language to the conscious action
181 Intro | influence worth speaking of on a language: such a view is said to
182 Intro | that whether applied to language or to other branches of
183 Intro | much to the knowledge of language. But if he means that the
184 Intro | uniformly true. For the laws of language are precarious, and can
185 Intro | principal cause of changes in language, but only one among many,
186 Intro | incumbrances or illusions of language may be reckoned many of
187 Intro | erroneous conception of language: for it reduces to a system
188 Intro | bring an earlier use of language into conformity with the
189 Intro | anatomy, not the physiology of language, which grammar seeks to
190 Intro | of the last of the three. Language is a thing of degrees and
191 Intro | ties it up in fixed rules. Language has many varieties of usage:
192 Intro | subject to law, and that a language which had no exceptions
193 Intro | the influences by which language is ordinarily affected.
194 Intro | grammar introduces into language. We are not considering
195 Intro | there are three stages of language: (1) in which things were
196 Intro | existed in early times. Language cannot be explained by Metaphysics;
197 Intro | and other to be latent in language at a time when in their
198 Intro | progress.~(4) Our knowledge of language is almost confined to languages
199 Intro | full rights and dignity of language when they acquire the use
200 Intro | or occupation. The common language sometimes reacts upon the
201 Intro | literary character. The laws of language can be best discerned in
202 Intro | discerned in the great crises of language, especially in the transitions
203 Intro | slowly found a resting-place. Language would be the greatest of
204 Intro | to observe our own use of language in conversation or in writing,
205 Intro | may compare with our own language some other, even when we
206 Intro | the inherent strength of language, which like ‘a mountain
207 Intro | the argot of Paris (that language of suffering and crime,
208 Intro | chiefly useful in showing what language is not. The study of any
209 Intro | The study of any foreign language may be made also a study
210 Intro | in the history of our own language as of any other. A few well-selected
211 Intro | into the true nature of language.~(6) Thus far we have been
212 Intro | endeavouring to strip off from language the false appearances in
213 Intro | of all the principles of language, common also to the animals,
214 Intro | rudimentary, half-articulate language, the cry or song or speech
215 Intro | the power is in the use of language than in any other process
216 Intro | provided the first material of language: but it was ‘without form
217 Intro | between what we now call language and the cry of a bird or
218 Intro | or animal. Speech before language was a rudis indigestaque
219 Intro | suppose that the analogies of language are always uniform: there
220 Intro | therefore too deeply imbedded in language entirely to drop out. The
221 Intro | are seldom known to us.~Language, like the animal and vegetable
222 Intro | of things. Gradually in language they arrange themselves
223 Intro | by side. The fertility of language produces many more than
224 Intro | perfected, though in no language did they completely perfect
225 Intro | for the intelligibility of language. So not without admixture
226 Intro | words, a lower stage of language passes into a higher. Thus
227 Intro | in all the vast domain of language, there is no answer to the
228 Intro | analogy permeates, not only language, but the whole world, both
229 Intro | to grasp the infinity of language either under the figure
230 Intro | analogy in the formation of language or even prior to it comes
231 Intro | disappeared; but in no stage of language is it entirely lost. It
232 Intro | belongs chiefly to early language, in which words were few;
233 Intro | onomatopea of primitive language was refined into an onomatopea
234 Intro | in all the higher uses of language the sound is the echo of
235 Intro | further that no explanation of language consistently corresponds
236 Intro | great may be the light which language throws upon the nature of
237 Intro | joiner’s work,—a theory of language which is more and more refuted
238 Intro | course of ages. The poet of language cannot put in and pull out
239 Intro | stage of the history of language ceases to act upon individual
240 Intro | pronunciation or use of language. Yet no one observes the
241 Intro | hand, the necessities of language seem to require that the
242 Intro | into the vacant spaces of language and retire when they are
243 Intro | they are no longer needed. Language equally abhors vacancy and
244 Intro | 7) We have shown that language, although subject to laws,
245 Intro | briefly of the faults of language. They may be compared to
246 Intro | them can be given. So in language there are the cross influences
247 Intro | the more common usage of language. The subtlety of nature
248 Intro | the first principles of language is possible and may be defended.~
249 Intro | defended.~The imperfection of language is really due to the formation
250 Intro | comprehend the whole of language, was constrained to ‘supplement
251 Intro | are two ways in which a language may attain permanence or
252 Intro | or the greater part of a language is literally preserved;
253 Intro | nation. In either case the language which is familiarly spoken
254 Intro | common use. Its influence on language has been increased ten,
255 Intro | been made. The instinct of language demands regular grammar
256 Intro | influence of literature on language we note some other causes
257 Intro | rhythm, rhyme, and of the language of prose and verse upon
258 Intro | he will find the English language as perfect and as ready
259 Intro | structure of the English language differs greatly from that
260 Intro | a very early instinct of language; for ancient poetry is almost
261 Intro | appear. In like manner when language is ‘contaminated’ by philosophy
262 Intro | poetry the form and polish of language is chiefly to be attributed;
263 Intro | period in the history of language is the transition from verse
264 Intro | characteristic features of language, affecting both syntax and
265 Intro | often supersedes the laws of language or the rules of grammar,
266 Intro | regarded as another law of language which is natural and necessary.
267 Intro | from the proprieties of language. Every one knows that we
268 Intro | of a piece of furniture, language becomes unpoetical, in expressive,
269 Intro | precedes the word and that all language is relative. (1) It is relative
270 Intro | is also a higher ideal of language in which all is relative—
271 Intro | brought back the philosophy of language from theory to fact; it
272 Intro | Lectures on the Science of Language;’ Steinthal, ‘Einleitung
273 Intro | Essay, Delbruck, ‘Study of Language;’ Paul’s ‘Principles of
274 Intro | Principles of the History of Language:’ to the latter work the
275 Text | education in grammar and language—these are his own words—
276 Text | a great deal to do with language; as I was telling you, the
277 Text | of the God who invented language and speech; and we may imagine
278 Text | according to the Hellenic language, and not according to the
279 Text | and not according to the language from which the words are
280 Text | genneteira), as in the language of Homer (Od.) gegaasi means
281 Text | that the fine fashionable language of modern times has twisted
282 Text | zemiodes, which in the old language is clearly indicated.~HERMOGENES:
283 Text | conservative of the ancient language, but now they change iota
284 Text | delta as in the ancient language, becomes demiodes; and this
285 Text | be surprised if the old language when compared with that
286 Text | nouns and verbs arrive at language, large and fair and whole;
287 Text | but) the ancients formed language, and what they put together
288 Text | others who would analyse language to any good purpose must
289 Text | rate, not such a subject as language, which is, perhaps, the
290 Text | Socrates; but the case of language, you see, is different;
291 Text | the most perfect state of language; as the opposite is the
Critias
Part
292 Text | translated them into their own language, and he recovered the meaning
293 Text | translated them into our language. My great-grandfather, Dropides,
294 Text | name which in the Hellenic language is Eumelus, in the language
295 Text | language is Eumelus, in the language of the country which is
Euthydemus
Part
296 Intro | schoolmen; the simple use of language has been, happily, restored
297 Intro | criticism; (2) the science of language, under which all questions
298 Intro | dead by an ambiguity of language. The term logic has two
299 Intro | have rooted themselves in language—as troublesome elements
300 Intro | philosophies, at a time when language was first beginning to perplex
301 Intro | word ‘this’ (Theaet.) from language; in which the ideas of space,
302 Intro | fallacy so gross, no trick of language so transparent, no abstraction
303 Intro | 1) The uncertainty of language, which allows the same words
304 Intro | contain allusions to tricks of language which may have been practised
305 Text | allow the strangers to use language in their own way, and not
306 Text | may be described, in the language of Aeschylus, as alone sitting
The First Alcibiades
Part
307 Pre | that on grounds either of language or philosophy we should
308 Intro | he has learned the Greek language of them? To this Socrates
309 Text | may be expressed in the language of Euripides. I think that
Gorgias
Part
310 Intro | might be described in modern language as a cynic or materialist,
311 Intro | this life, the insulting language, the box on the ears, will
312 Intro | rhetorician, and in Homeric language, ‘boasts himself to be a
313 Intro | a little milder in your language, if you do not wish to drive
314 Intro | the imperfect nature of language, and must not be construed
315 Intro | resemblances both of spirit and language in the Republic than in
316 Intro | expressed in nearly the same language. The sufferings and fate
317 Intro | ability can easily feign the language of piety or virtue; and
318 Intro | the purest and sweetest language, are still the proper material
319 Intro | plaything, or, in Plato’s language, a flattery, a sophistry,
320 Intro | and exhibits his gifts of language and metre. Such an one seeks
321 Intro | consistent with itself. The language of philosophy mingles with
322 Intro | inadequately in another language.~The myth in the Statesman
323 Intro | from poetry to reality. Language is the expression of the
324 Intro | Whether such a use of language is puerile or noble depends
325 Intro | has discovered a use of language in which they are united;
326 Text | me that which, in Homeric language, ‘I boast myself to be.’~
327 Text | wholly through the medium of language, and require either no action
328 Text | of the State, and in the language which ought to be used in
329 Text | is spoken to in his own language and spirit, and dislikes
Laches
Part
330 Intro | inversion of the ordinary use of language Laches reclaims, but is
Laws
Book
331 4 | certain times. This is the language of naval warfare, and is
332 4 | the community of race, and language, and language, and laws,
333 4 | race, and language, and language, and laws, and in common
334 4 | the forced and exaggerated language of some philosophers is
335 4 | that you are speaking a language that can become law.~Cleinias.
336 4 | I imagine that all this language of conciliation, which the
337 6 | slaves who speak the same language, and the numerous robberies
338 6 | possible, speaking the same language; in this way they will more
339 6 | make them conceited. The language used to a servant ought
340 7 | not as yet understand the language of the country, and are
341 7 | about our institutions, in language other than our own, and
342 7 | variance with the usual language of age. But when any one
343 7 | and pray to them in pious language, and not to blaspheme about
344 7 | and learn to use better language, then I quite agree with
345 8 | ought severally to be in language and song, and in the admixture
346 8 | comedy or in the graver language of tragedy? When the poet
347 8 | all mankind use the same language about them?~Athenian. A
348 9 | gentleman patient, and using the language almost of philosophy, beginning
349 9 | inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder
350 11 | of definiteness in their language they do a great deal of
351 11 | creature, and is apt to use language which causes a great deal
Lysis
Part
352 Intro | what would be called in the language of Thrasyllus tentative
353 Text | to say in grandiloquent language, that the idea of friendship
Menexenus
Part
354 Pre | that on grounds either of language or philosophy we should
Meno
Part
355 Intro | who welcomes the familiar language of Gorgias and Empedocles.
356 Intro | embellished with poetical language, to the better and truer
357 Intro | superior to the illusions of language, and are constantly crying
358 Intro | necessary imperfection of language against the most certain
359 Intro | had any true conception of language or of the history of philosophy.
360 Intro | human mind and the nature of language are almost wholly ignored,
361 Intro | other. We may trace them in language, in philosophy, in mythology,
Parmenides
Part
362 Intro | appeared to him, in Homeric language, to be ‘venerable and awful,’
363 Intro | the infinite subtlety of language and thought.~But the realism
364 Intro | respecting the part played by language in the process of thought.
365 Intro | a little parodying the language of the Philebus, have long
366 Intro | May we say, in Platonic language, that we still seem to see
367 Intro | if they had said, in the language of modern philosophy: ‘Being
368 Intro | out of the imperfection of language, and should therefore be
369 Intro | attempt is made to narrow language in such a manner that number
370 Intro | admire the precision of the language, in which, as in some curious
371 Intro | inquiry into the relation of language and thought, and the metaphysical
372 Intro | know that the powers of language are very unequal to the
373 Intro | can frame a new universal language; in thought as in speech,
Phaedo
Part
374 Intro | and hell, whether in the language of Scripture or any other,
375 Intro | expresses them in different language. For we feel that the soul
376 Intro | take them in: it is in the language of ideas only that we speak
377 Intro | states of existence. His language may be compared to that
378 Intro | attendant genius in the language of the mysteries or of a
379 Intro | supplied by the analysis of language and the history of the human
380 Intro | the dialectical into the language of Hegel, and the religious
381 Intro | and mythological into the language of Dante or Bunyan, the
382 Intro | expression the distinctions of language can hardly be maintained.~
383 Intro | Socrates; his mien and his language are so noble and fearless.
384 Intro | Cyropaedia Xenophon has put language into the mouth of the dying
385 Intro | nature. (Xen. Mem.) And the language of the Apology and of the
386 Text | speak of this?~Yes, but his language was obscure, Socrates.~My
Phaedrus
Part
387 Intro | my recantation in finer language than before: I did so in
388 Intro | and conflict first; in the language of religion they must be
389 Intro | nor can we translate the language of irony into that of plain
390 Intro | meaning of this and other wild language to the same effect, which
391 Intro | described in magnificent language as the self-moved and the
392 Intro | may be happy enough.~The language of the Meno and the Phaedo
393 Intro | whether to be termed in modern language genius, or inspiration,
394 Intro | ironically repeating the common language of mankind about philosophy,
395 Intro | is because the force of language can no further go. Nor can
396 Intro | obliterated or lost. In the language of some modern theologians
397 Intro | from this decline the Greek language and literature, unlike the
398 Intro | sense of beauty either in language or in art. The Greek world
399 Intro | combinations of thought and language. But, as yet, experience
400 Text | especially in the matter of the language?~SOCRATES: Yes, quite admirable;
401 Text | finish, and tournure of the language? As to the first I willingly
402 Text | the same in every use of language; this is the art, if there
Philebus
Part
403 Intro | And if we translate his language into corresponding modern
404 Intro | be got rid of.~3. In the language of ancient philosophy, the
405 Intro | acquit Plato, to use his own language, of being a ‘tyro in dialectics,’
406 Intro | naturally expressed in modern language as eternal law, and seems
407 Intro | were fond of asking, in the language of their age, ‘Is pleasure
408 Intro | they were doing, or, in the language of the Gorgias, ‘did what
409 Intro | unconscious influence of language; they are impressed upon
410 Intro | of the boundless ocean of language and thought in little rills,
411 Intro | view of them. This, in the language of Kant, is the sphere of
412 Intro | term in the common use of language is only to a certain extent
413 Intro | signification in common language. And as words influence
414 Intro | at variance with common language and opinion, does not comply
415 Intro | and fixed, and should use language in its ordinary sense. Persons
416 Intro | necessary imperfection of language seems to require that we
417 Intro | and charm; and a technical language has begun to supersede and
Protagoras
Part
418 Intro | balanced and sententious language: and Hippias proposes an
419 Intro | accept any distinctions of language however absurd. At the same
420 Intro | displaying his distinctions of language, which are valueless and
421 Text | accustomed to speak a barbarous language, is natural.~Do you hear,
The Republic
Book
422 1 | adopt your exact use of language? ~Certainly not. ~Or because
423 2 | would seriously hold the language which I have been merely
424 3 | Then we shall approve such language as that of Diomede in Homer, ~"
425 4 | same notion may be found in language. ~No doubt, he said. ~There
426 5 | them? ~Then in our city the language of harmony and concord will
427 5 | are ever fully realized in language? Does not the word express
428 7 | contradiction to the ordinary language of geometricians. ~How so? ~
429 9 | powers in the artist; but, as language is more pliable than wax
The Second Alcibiades
Part
430 Pre | There is no power over language, or beauty of style; and
431 Text | or, if we prefer gentler language, describe them as ‘romantic’
The Seventh Letter
Part
432 Text | been safe; but in covert language we maintained that every
433 Text | barbarians. This was the language and these the exhortations
434 Text | account of the weakness of language, these (i.e., the four)
435 Text | his philosophical views in language, especially not in language
436 Text | language, especially not in language that is unchangeable, which
The Sophist
Part
437 Intro | of humour and satire. The language is less fanciful and imaginative
438 Intro | impress of the great master of language. But the equably diffused
439 Intro | is made to the technical language of Aristotle, in the frequent
440 Intro | solved; the answer, in the language of the Republic, appears ‘
441 Intro | Being.’ Transferring this to language and thought, we have no
442 Intro | and imagination and common language to that of opinion and reflection
443 Intro | speak in the metaphorical language of Plato, became in turn
444 Intro | asserted in every form of language, the sensible world and
445 Intro | Eleatics. To the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies
446 Intro | repugnant to the common use of language.~The ordinary logic is also
447 Intro | and by the common use of language, which has been already
448 Intro | over-accuracy in the use of language; 3. they deny predication;
449 Intro | not-being has no place in language. Hence arises the necessity
450 Intro | attributes was implied in common language; that heat and cold, day
451 Intro | them (Republic). In modern language they might be said to come
452 Intro | justify the use of common language and of ordinary thought
453 Intro | the ordinary mechanism of language and logic is carried by
454 Intro | by the use of a technical language. The saying of Socrates
455 Intro | live and are mighty; in the language of the Greek poet, ‘There
456 Intro | distinctions of thought and language had no existence.~Of the
457 Intro | due to the imperfection of language or the limitation of human
458 Intro | discovery which, in Platonic language, may be termed a ‘most gracious
459 Intro | human ideas, or, in the language of logicians, they have
460 Intro | made by himself out of the language of common life. He uses
461 Intro | Bible was written in the language of the common people, so
462 Intro | student has to learn a new language of uncertain meaning which
463 Intro | same extent as Hegel. The language of Plato or even of Aristotle
464 Intro | series of thinkers: the language of the scholastic logic
465 Intro | against the Hegelian use of language as mechanical and technical.~
466 Intro | element of chance either in language or thought; and perhaps
467 Intro | want of a sound theory of language. He speaks as if thought,
468 Intro | of being identical with language, was wholly independent
469 Intro | hardly any basis either in language or philosophy, while others,
470 Intro | a corrective of popular language or thought, but should still
471 Intro | philosophy which, in Hegel’s own language, ‘does not allow the individual
472 Intro | categories derived from language and invented by the genius
473 Intro | stripped of the disguises of language and custom. He will not
474 Text | mingles with opinion and language.~THEAETETUS: How so?~STRANGER:
475 Text | and some not, and that language and opinion are of the non-partaking
476 Text | he will say, opinion and language do not partake of not-being,
477 Text | enquiring into the nature of language, opinion, and imagination,
478 Text | exists in the sphere of language and opinion, and there will
479 Text | all obtain a conception of language and opinion, in order that
480 Text | combination of them forms language, and is the simplest and
481 Text | STRANGER: And seeing that language is true and false, and that
482 Text | since they are akin to language, should have an element
The Statesman
Part
483 Intro | beginning to use a technical language. He is bitter and satirical,
484 Intro | And to intelligent persons language is, or ought to be, a better
485 Intro | translated into the difficult language of facts. Let us, then,
486 Intro | speaks of what in modern language might be termed ‘impossibilities
487 Intro | philosophy, as in childhood, the language of pictures is natural to
488 Intro | philosophy was to be found in language, the danger of word-catching,
489 Intro | the long and difficult language of facts;’ and ‘the interrogation
490 Intro | approximate in thought and language to the Laws. There is the
491 Text | and have no ties or common language, they include under the
492 Text | better be delineated by language and discourse than by any
493 Text | into the long and difficult language (syllables) of facts, is
494 Text | consent, always in ordinary language has the same name.~YOUNG
The Symposium
Part
495 Intro | clearly explained in his language. There is no foreign element
496 Intro | satyr. Like the satyr in his language too; for he uses the commonest
497 Intro | the first distinctions of language and of mythology was that
498 Intro | and the licence of its language in speaking about the gods.
499 Intro | goes. Then follows, in the language of the mysteries, a higher
500 Text | all over that which in our language is called the belly, like