Charmides
    Part
  1 PreF |            Politicus. (The negative argument adduced by the same school
  2 PreS |            marks another step in an argument or a narrative or a statement;
  3 PreS |         with which the steps of the argument are drawn out is apt to
  4 PreS |        First, the foundation of his argument is laid in the Metaphysics
  5 PreS |            the height of this great argument’ I do not propose to ascend.
  6 PreS |         whither the wind blows, the argument follows’. The dialogues
  7 Intro|             of the Sophists. In the argument he is not unfair, if allowance
  8 Text |             instead of pursuing the argument.~And what if I am? How can
  9 Text |            this moment I pursue the argument chiefly for my own sake,
 10 Text |         refuted; attend only to the argument, and see what will come
 11 Text |       offering of the third or last argument to Zeus the Saviour, let
 12 Text |       perplexity. In order that the argument might proceed, I said to
 13 Text |            of science, although the argument said No, and protested against
 14 Text |          this too was denied by the argument), because we wanted to show


Cratylus
    Part
 15 Intro|               Theat.), ‘whither the argument blows we follow’ (Rep.).
 16 Intro|             dramatic sketches of an argument. We have found that in the
 17 Intro|          the different sides of the argument were personified in the
 18 Intro|           the opposite poles of the argument. But after a while the disciple
 19 Intro|            not easily apprehend the argument from common sense, remains
 20 Intro|            with the old sophistical argument, that falsehood is saying
 21 Intro|        Socrates complains that this argument is too subtle for an old
 22 Intro|            this would have been an ‘argument too subtle’ for Socrates,
 23 Intro|          great controversy and high argument between Heracleiteans and
 24 Text |             Socrates a party to the argument?~CRATYLUS: If you please.~
 25 Text |       Precisely.~SOCRATES: Then the argument would lead us to infer that
 26 Text |        which is not?~SOCRATES: Your argument, friend, is too subtle for
 27 Text |             understanding about the argument, let me state my view to


Critias
    Part
 28 Text |             prayer I deliver up the argument to Critias, who is to speak
 29 Text |          you must go and attack the argument like a man. First invoke


Crito
    Part
 30 Text |          Shall I return to your old argument about the opinions of men?—
 31 Text |          was condemned? And has the argument which was once good now
 32 Text |          present circumstances, the argument appears to be in any way
 33 Text |           by me or disallowed. That argument, which, as I believe, is
 34 Text |          with surprise that the old argument is unshaken as ever. And
 35 Text |          reason. But now, since the argument has thus far prevailed,
 36 Text |          that be the premiss of our argument? Or do you decline and dissent


Euthydemus
    Part
 37 Intro|      require categories or heads of argument to be invented for our use.
 38 Intro|            us too far away from the argument of the dialogue.~The Euthydemus
 39 Intro|             as he often gives us an argument within an argument. At the
 40 Intro|            us an argument within an argument. At the same time he takes
 41 Text |            Dionysodorus took up the argument, like a ball which he caught,
 42 Text |           that I cannot refute your argument. Tell me if the words have
 43 Text |           and Euthydemus, that this argument lies where it was and is
 44 Text |           from the whirlpool of the argument; they were our Castor and
 45 Text |           this.~You are ruining the argument, said Euthydemus to Dionysodorus;
 46 Text |           Euthydemus, taking up the argument, Chaeredemus is a father,
 47 Text |       Ctesippus, here taking up the argument, said: And is not your father


Euthyphro
    Part
 48 Intro|          following the course of an argument. His wrong-headedness, one-sidedness,
 49 Intro|             failure to apprehend an argument may be compared to a similar
 50 Intro|          only. In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the
 51 Text |             he is yourself; for the argument, as you will perceive, comes


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 52 Pre  |             or merely following the argument ‘whither the wind blows.’
 53 Pre  |       adduced on either side of the argument. On the whole, more may
 54 Text |           of just and unjust is the argument of those poems?~ALCIBIADES:
 55 Text |            be refuted by a previous argument, you insist on having a
 56 Text |       different refutation; the old argument is a worn-our garment which
 57 Text |        dislike the taste of a stale argument, I will enquire no further
 58 Text |              SOCRATES: Then, if the argument holds, what we find to be
 59 Text |    perplexed, then, as the previous argument has shown, you are not only
 60 Text |           own mouth and by your own argument; wherefore also you rush


Gorgias
    Part
 61 Intro|          themes are introduced; the argument expands into a general view
 62 Intro|       change with the stages of the argument. Socrates is deferential
 63 Intro|        himself by Socrates, and the argument is transferred to the hands
 64 Intro|      confuted he withdraws from the argument, and leaves Socrates to
 65 Intro|           self-accusation. When the argument with him has fairly run
 66 Intro|        intellectual interest in the argument. Like Anytus, again, he
 67 Intro|             consequences of his own argument should be stated in plain
 68 Intro|             induced to continue the argument by the authority of Gorgias.
 69 Intro|             a recapitulation of the argument in a figure.~(2) Socrates
 70 Intro|           says, we will ‘resume the argument from the beginning.’~Socrates,
 71 Intro|            sort, but fears that the argument may be tedious to the company.
 72 Intro|      explained?~The fallacy of this argument is twofold; for in the first
 73 Intro|            is shown in bringing the argument to such a pass. Socrates
 74 Intro|             the other. In this very argument, what Polus only meant in
 75 Intro|           and they proceed with the argument. Pleasure and good are the
 76 Intro|         that he may get through the argument. Which of the arts then
 77 Intro|         likewise discernible in his argument with Callicles.~(2) Although
 78 Intro|             by reason only, yet the argument is often a sort of dialectical
 79 Intro|      figures of speech or chains of argument; and not less so in asking
 80 Intro|             to have the best of the argument; or to repeat the observation
 81 Intro|            himself. The form of the argument may be paradoxical; the
 82 Intro|      earnest. Finally, he drops the argument, and heedless any longer
 83 Intro|             adds a corollary to the argument:— ‘Would you punish your
 84 Intro|               in which the previous argument is recapitulated, and the
 85 Intro|          rather paltry image of the argument wandering about without
 86 Intro|     improved, from the Gorgias: the argument personified as veiling her
 87 Intro|           great criminals only. The argument of the dialogue is frequently
 88 Text |         sake, but in order that the argument may proceed in such a manner
 89 Text |            as I was saying that the argument may proceed consecutively,
 90 Text |          are to blame. And the same argument holds good of rhetoric;
 91 Text |   exhibition, and if we proceed the argument may run on to a great length.
 92 Text |      SOCRATES: And according to the argument the rhetorician must be
 93 Text |            he, but you, brought the argument by your captious questions—(
 94 Text |             manners in bringing the argument to such a pass.~SOCRATES:
 95 Text |         have a real interest in the argument, or, to repeat my former
 96 Text |             suppose, is the sort of argument with which you fancy that
 97 Text |         respectability. And in this argument nearly every one, Athenian
 98 Text |          saying, you have no better argument than numbers, let me have
 99 Text |             the healing hand of the argument as to a physician without
100 Text |            And if he cuts, the same argument holds—there will be something
101 Text |           to be running riot in the argument. And now you are declaiming
102 Text |             you agree with me in an argument about any point, that point
103 Text |        appealing to custom when the argument is about nature, and to
104 Text |              and to nature when the argument is about custom?~CALLICLES:
105 Text |             this had to do with our argument.~SOCRATES: But why will
106 Text |         your way of approaching the argument; for what you say is what
107 Text |    introducing such topics into the argument?~SOCRATES: Well, my fine
108 Text |           shall we proceed with the argument?~CALLICLES: By all means. (
109 Text |             should like to hear the argument out.~CALLICLES: Yes, Gorgias,
110 Text |     allowable. But to return to our argument:—Does not a man cease from
111 Text |             shall soonest bring the argument to an end, and shall oblige
112 Text |     SOCRATES: And does not the same argument hold of the soul, my good
113 Text |           chastisement of which the argument speaks!~CALLICLES: I do
114 Text |         should not like to have the argument going about without a head (
115 Text |            I wish that you and your argument would rest, or that you
116 Text |       willing?—I want to finish the argument.~CALLICLES: Cannot you finish
117 Text |            the supposition that the argument ought to be completed; but
118 Text |        until you have completed the argument; and this appears to me
119 Text |          have liked to continue the argument with Callicles, and then
120 Text |            while I recapitulate the argument:—Is the pleasant the same
121 Text |           to a man of sense, as the argument shows: do you think that
122 Text |             and after death, as the argument shows. And never mind if
123 Text |              Let us, then, take the argument as our guide, which has


Ion
    Part
124 Intro|             and the other arts. The argument is at last brought home
125 Intro|             playing tricks with the argument; like Proteus, he transforms
126 Intro|             follow the steps of the argument. And in his highest moments
127 Intro|      adduced in confirmation of the argument that this truly Platonic
128 Text |        handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of


Laches
    Part
129 Intro|         here proposes to resign the argument into the hands of the younger
130 Intro|            they must ‘endure’ in an argument about endurance. Laches
131 Intro|          sort. Socrates resumes the argument. Courage has been defined
132 Intro|             him, withdraws from the argument. Melesias, who is only his
133 Text |          liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he
134 Text |             where Socrates was, the argument would soon pass from our
135 Text |             tossing on the waves of argument, and at the last gasp: you
136 Text |           and I are partners in the argument: Do you mean to affirm that


Laws
    Book
137 1    |             thrown a light upon the argument, and will now be better
138 1    |            reverse the order of the argument: Seeing that every individual
139 1    |            Please follow me and the argument closely:—And first I will
140 1    |             as well as him, for the argument is a common concern. Tell
141 1    |             is the way by which our argument must travel onwards to the
142 1    |          and vice. According to the argument there is one among these
143 1    |              Athenian. Is there any argument which will prove to us that
144 2    |             much to be desired. The argument seems to imply that there
145 2    |           be implied in the present argument.~Athenian. And even supposing
146 2    |           otherwise, and not as the argument has proven, still the lawgiver,
147 2    |     Cleinias. I do not see that any argument can fairly be raised by
148 2    |             Cleinias. But, says the argument, we cannot let them off.~
149 2    |             friend; but whither the argument leads, thither let us follow;
150 2    |          the original design of the argument which was intended to bring
151 3    |             and drinking–bouts, the argument has, providentially, come
152 3    |         Well, now, and does not the argument show that there is one common
153 3    |            their train. And now the argument returns to the same point,
154 3    |       friends, in the course of the argument.~Cleinias. Pray go on, Stranger;—
155 3    |         Cleinias. Let us resume the argument in that spirit. And now,
156 3    |        government in a measure; the argument emphatically declares that
157 3    |             of talking, but for the argument’s sake. Please to remark
158 3    |            this? I ask, because the argument ought to be pulled up from
159 4    |          delay let us return to the argument, and, as people say in play,
160 5    |           we have to learn from the argument—the point being what is
161 5    |           let us suppose this “high argument” of ours to address us in
162 6    |           the opportunity which the argument affords of saying a word
163 6    |      ordered; and at this point the argument is now waiting. For with
164 7    |            one another’s words. The argument affirms that any change
165 7    |           it been the object of our argument to show? Did we not imply
166 7    |        might be an objection to the argument, but the fact being as I
167 7    |          the proposed limits of the argument; but whether we are right
168 8    |             some sort of persuasive argument which will prove to you
169 9    |         fair and honourable, if the argument is consistently carried
170 9    |           order of excellence. This argument teaches us that he who would
171 10   |         have been the cause of this argument; I speak of those who will
172 10   |             bad and mistaken use of argument, but they lead away the
173 10   |           Athenian. I fear that the argument may seem singular.~Cleinias.
174 10   |            must repeat the singular argument of those who manufacture
175 10   |            lest this most deceptive argument with its youthful looks,
176 10   |              I mean to say that the argument in prospect is likely to
177 10   |         that way I can carry on the argument until I have completed the
178 10   |      venture upon the depths of the argument. When questions of this
179 10   |      Athenian. At this stage of the argument let us put a question.~Cleinias.
180 10   |          let us speak, and the same argument will apply to all.~Cleinias.
181 10   |        arrives, we will add another argument to that originally addressed
182 10   |           having the superiority in argument, they may do as they please
183 10   |            failed, the style of our argument will not discredit the lawgiver.~
184 12   |          and we must assume, as the argument iniplies, that this council
185 12   |          they?~Athenian. One is the argument about the soul, which has
186 12   |         existence; the other was an argument from the order of the motion


Lysis
    Part
187 Intro|         stand. In the course of the argument he makes a distinction between
188 Intro|        manner in which the field of argument is widened, as in the Charmides
189 Intro|          youth takes in a difficult argument. But Plato has not forgotten
190 Text |          mind was taken up with the argument; there was no mistaking
191 Text |           Who are friends?’ for the argument declares ‘That the good
192 Text |          dizzy with thinking of the argument, and therefore I hazard
193 Text |            excluded by the previous argument; and therefore, if there
194 Text |            afraid, I said, that the argument about friendship is false:
195 Text |             intending to revise the argument, I said: Can we point out
196 Text |            may be some sense in our argument about friendship. But if
197 Text |            you get rid of the other argument, of the uselessness of like
198 Text |         like—in the intoxication of argument, that may perhaps be allowed.~


Menexenus
    Part
199 Pre  |             or merely following the argument ‘whither the wind blows.’
200 Pre  |       adduced on either side of the argument. On the whole, more may
201 Intro|             be fairly adduced as an argument that it is not a forgery


Meno
    Part
202 Intro|           This was the stage of the argument at which the Protagoras
203 Text |          business is to take up the argument and refute me. But if we
204 Text |            Socrates, and is not the argument sound?~SOCRATES: I think
205 Text |          listen to this sophistical argument about the impossibility
206 Text |       virtue? Does not the previous argument imply clearly that we should
207 Text |           admit the cogency of your argument, and therefore, Socrates,


Parmenides
    Part
208 Intro|       affected to decline the great argument, on which, as Zeno knew
209 Intro|           and each division of your argument is intended to elicit a
210 Intro|           of a given statement.~The argument which follows is the most
211 Intro|           take a living part in the argument; he is only required to
212 Intro|            the thought of them.~The argument has two divisions: There
213 Intro|       infinite subdivision: (4) The argument often proceeds ‘a dicto
214 Intro|            10) In some parts of the argument the abstraction is so rarefied
215 Intro|         used through long chains of argument, sometimes loosely, sometimes
216 Intro|            geometrical figures.~The argument is a very curious piece
217 Intro|        fallacious, but ‘whither the argument blows’ he follows.~III.
218 Intro|           other, and long trains of argument are carried out with a sort
219 Text |           first thesis of the first argument might be read over again,
220 Text |        astonished. This part of the argument appears to be treated by
221 Text |             successive steps of the argument; but still they gave the
222 Text |             not in any time?~So the argument shows.~Well, but do not
223 Text |        would already be; but if the argument is to be trusted, the one
224 Text |           it is the same.~Yes, that argument may be used.~And there is
225 Text |          used.~And there is another argument.~What?~In so far as it is
226 Text | simultaneous; and according to this argument the one will be neither
227 Text |           according to the previous argument the one will be older and
228 Text |             Certainly.~And the same argument holds of each part, for
229 Text |          Then may we not sum up the argument in a word and say truly:


Phaedo
    Part
230 Intro|           by recalling the previous argument, in which he had shown that
231 Intro|             and truth is not in the argument, but in ourselves. Socrates,
232 Intro|        interest in the truth of the argument. And therefore he would
233 Intro|        Socrates playfully terms the argument of Simmias, has been happily
234 Intro|          Socrates recapitulates the argument of Cebes, which, as he remarks,
235 Intro|       companions of Socrates, ‘What argument can we ever trust again?’
236 Intro|            figure, the analogy, the argument, are felt to be only approximations
237 Intro|   vindictively in another. The true argument from analogy is not, ‘This
238 Intro|           at hearing our favourite ‘argument from analogy’ thus summarily
239 Intro|           other, which is the first argument in the Phaedo, is at variance
240 Intro|            to see that his crowning argument is purely verbal, and is
241 Intro|             not the souls.’ Such an argument stands nearly in the same
242 Intro|           Plato and his age, as the argument from the existence of God
243 Intro|             from Him.’~19. The main argument of the Phaedo is derived
244 Intro|            is a partaker; the other argument of the alternation of opposites
245 Intro|         truth is, that Plato in his argument for the immortality of the
246 Intro|           perfection. In using this argument Plato has certainly confused
247 Intro|            forego the delight of an argument in compliance with the jailer’
248 Intro|              the respondents in the argument.~First there is Crito, who
249 Intro|           At a particular point the argument is described as falling
250 Intro|         they too can never trust an argument again.’ And the intense
251 Intro|            Phaedrus as fonder of an argument than any man living; and
252 Intro|             at last concedes to the argument such a qualified approval
253 Intro|           Dialogues of Plato, is an argument to the contrary. Yet in
254 Intro|         whereas in the Republic the argument turns on the natural continuance
255 Intro|         mythology descends upon the argument. After the confession of
256 Intro|          temporary overthrow of the argument, the picture of Socrates
257 Text |           seems to bring us and our argument to the conclusion, that
258 Text |            requires a great deal of argument and many proofs to show
259 Text |          said Cebes; and to me your argument seems to be absolutely true.~
260 Text |             Socrates, as far as the argument is concerned, one of them
261 Text |            would be no force in the argument? There is the same proof
262 Text |           as for the other; and the argument retreats successfully to
263 Text |          would be glad to probe the argument further. Like children,
264 Text |          return to the point of the argument at which we digressed.~By
265 Text |           may be inferred from this argument, as well as from the preceding
266 Text |           every one who follows the argument, the soul will be infinitely
267 Text |            what they thought of the argument, and whether there was anything
268 Text |            alone or with Cebes, the argument does certainly appear to
269 Text |            know in what respect the argument is insufficient.~In this
270 Text |            a person to use the same argument about harmony and the lyre—
271 Text |              My feeling is that the argument is where it was, and open
272 Text |          body. Well, then, says the argument to me, why do you remain
273 Text |    therefore rather not rely on the argument from superior strength to
274 Text |          not only into the previous argument, but into any future one;
275 Text |             the same question: What argument can I ever trust again?
276 Text |            more convincing than the argument of Socrates, which has now
277 Text |        begin again and find another argument which will assure me that
278 Text |           had been inflicted by the argument, and the readiness with
279 Text |          and return to the field of argument.~ECHECRATES: What followed?~
280 Text |          and not to-morrow, if this argument dies and we cannot bring
281 Text |          and if I were you, and the argument got away from me, and I
282 Text |           in dialectics believes an argument to be true which he afterwards
283 Text |       should have lighted upon some argument or other which at first
284 Text |          see how much I gain by the argument. For if what I say is true,
285 Text |             in which I approach the argument. And I would ask you to
286 Text |        force of the whole preceding argument, or of a part only?~Of a
287 Text |           said, of that part of the argument in which we said that knowledge
288 Text |       impressed by that part of the argument, and that his conviction
289 Text |           she have, if the previous argument holds?~Then, if all souls
290 Text |          sure that you have put the argument with Harmonia in a manner
291 Text |       surprised at finding that his argument could not sustain the first
292 Text |           perish; for the preceding argument shows that the soul will
293 Text |             departure; and the same argument would have held good of
294 Text |            follow the course of the argument; and if that be plain and
295 Text |           come to an end before the argument was completed. I may describe
296 Text |          talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the


Phaedrus
    Part
297 Intro|         lest, as Phaedrus says, the argument should be too ‘abstract
298 Intro|       weight can be attached to the argument that Plato must have visited
299 Intro|       fortunes, their impatience of argument, their indifference to first
300 Text |           to him, he used this very argument—that he ought to accept
301 Text |             think that our previous argument has been too abstract and
302 Text |         madly;’ and madness was the argument of them, for, as I said, ‘
303 Text |          truth, and who by force of argument make the little appear great
304 Text |         examine and see whether his argument agrees with his conception
305 Text |             by a particular form of argument, and another not.~PHAEDRUS:
306 Text |             ought to have a certain argument applied to him in order
307 Text |           such as yours. Truly, the argument may say, Tisias, that if
308 Text |      implied in the whole preceding argument.~PHAEDRUS: Yes, that was
309 Text |      censured— did not our previous argument show—?~PHAEDRUS: Show what?~


Philebus
    Part
310 Intro|          who has withdrawn from the argument, is several times brought
311 Intro|             previous discussion. An argument respecting the comparative
312 Intro|          Philebus and Socrates. The argument is now transferred to Protarchus,
313 Intro|       understanding about the ‘high argument’ of the one and the many.~
314 Intro|            if we are to pursue this argument further, we shall require
315 Intro|            is the application?’ The argument is in play, and desires
316 Intro|           but ask, on behalf of the argument, what are the highest truths
317 Intro|            is now added; and so the argument is complete, and may be
318 Intro|           kinds. (Compare a similar argument urged by one of the latest
319 Intro|         especially hardly any other argument can be allowed to have weight
320 Intro|           the rights of others, the argument that these actions regarded
321 Text |             of the two sides of the argument?~PHILEBUS: Nothing could
322 Text |      Philebus, have handed over the argument to me, and have no longer
323 Text |            we will proceed with the argument.~SOCRATES: Then let us begin
324 Text |     therefore do not rely upon this argument, which would go to prove
325 Text |            will this invalidate the argument?~SOCRATES: Why, I shall
326 Text |           art of disputing; and the argument will be blown away and lost.
327 Text |          and another;—would not the argument founder and disappear like
328 Text |          the principle on which the argument rests.~PROTARCHUS: What
329 Text |           bear upon us and upon the argument?~SOCRATES: Philebus is right
330 Text |             this has to do with the argument?~PHILEBUS: Yes, that is
331 Text |             the whole charge of the argument, but if neither of us were
332 Text |           Callias; and the previous argument showed that if we are not
333 Text |           answer you, Socrates; the argument has taken away from me the
334 Text |             has been smitten by the argument, and is laid low. I must
335 Text |         until you have finished the argument.~SOCRATES: Heavens! Protarchus,
336 Text |          And must I then finish the argument?~PROTARCHUS: Of course you
337 Text |            SOCRATES: Then, says the argument, there is never any end
338 Text |            that if I could hear the argument repeated by you once or
339 Text |            asserted in the previous argument, all things that were divided
340 Text |           all that in the preceding argument we placed under the unity
341 Text |      consider the next stage of the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Let me hear.~
342 Text |             any way relevant to the argument, and whatever is the conclusion
343 Text |          SOCRATES: Why, because the argument shows that the endeavour
344 Text |             True.~SOCRATES: And the argument, having proved that memory
345 Text |            Most true.~SOCRATES: The argument will not allow that our
346 Text |            further observation; the argument appears to me to imply that
347 Text |          enquiry is relevant to the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Surely.~SOCRATES:
348 Text |        would rather show by another argument that there are many false
349 Text |         approach and grasp this new argument.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
350 Text |       Protarchus, does not help the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Why not, Socrates?~
351 Text |            avoid the brunt of their argument. Shall I tell you how I
352 Text |             I did not introduce the argument, O Protarchus, with any
353 Text |       Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then the argument shows that when we laugh
354 Text |             True.~SOCRATES: And the argument implies that there are combinations
355 Text |           my meaning; but, says the argument, understand me to mean straight
356 Text |     examples in illustration of the argument about pleasure; one such
357 Text |         difficulty, Protarchus; the argument is only in play, and insinuates
358 Text |        understand.~SOCRATES: As the argument proceeds, my boy, I dare
359 Text |          told by you.~SOCRATES: The argument has all along been seeking
360 Text |           SOCRATES: And has not the argument in what has preceded, already
361 Text |            And just now did not the argument first designate a particular
362 Text |             very question which the argument is asking.~SOCRATES: And
363 Text |           and urge on behalf of the argument a single point.~PROTARCHUS:
364 Text |            be a fair summary of the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Let me hear.~
365 Text |           to my way of thinking the argument is now completed, and may
366 Text |        Clearly, and yet perhaps the argument had better be pursued to
367 Text |          entirely disproven in this argument, because they are both wanting
368 Text |            first to go away from an argument.~THE END~     >


Protagoras
    Part
369 Intro|            Alcibiades to defer.~The argument is now resumed, not without
370 Intro|          except from ignorance. The argument is drawn out in an imaginary ‘
371 Intro|     thoughts into both sides of the argument, and certainly does not
372 Intro|        science of interrogation and argument; also of the irony of Socrates
373 Intro|      Protagoras has the best of the argument and represents the better
374 Intro|      undertake, not one side of the argument only, but both, when Protagoras
375 Intro|          first thesis. The force of argument, therefore, and not Socrates
376 Intro|           quite as agreeable as the argument, we arrive at the great
377 Text |           has been helping me in an argument. But shall I tell you a
378 Text |             apologue and resume the argument. Please to consider: Is
379 Text |           Socrates, and such is the argument by which I endeavour to
380 Text |            test the validity of the argument; and yet the result may
381 Text |       refusing, as he said that the argument was not encouraging; at
382 Text |         holding and apprehending an argument. Now if Protagoras will
383 Text |             claims a superiority in argument as well, let him ask and
384 Text |           completing our unfinished argument.~I made these and some similar
385 Text |          either to proceed with the argument, or distinctly refuse to
386 Text |            pleasure’; and the whole argument turns upon this. And even
387 Text |           you say is true, then the argument is absurd which affirms
388 Text |         well as Protagoras (for the argument is to be yours as well as
389 Text |       proved by you in the previous argument to be impossible.~That,
390 Text |              Protagoras?~Finish the argument by yourself, he said.~I
391 Text |    impossible consistently with the argument.~My only object, I said,
392 Text |             be singular. For if the argument had a human voice, that
393 Text |            up and deceive us in the argument, as he forgot us in the
394 Text |       energy and your conduct of an argument. As I have often said, I


The Republic
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395 1    |     sacrifices, and I hand over the argument to Polemarchus and the company. ~
396 1    |            then, O thou heir of the argument, what did Simonides say,
397 1    |              That is implied in the argument. ~Then after all, the just
398 1    |              Then according to your argument it is just to injure those
399 1    |          made an attempt to get the argument into his own hands, and
400 1    |             a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that
401 1    |             is most damaging to the argument. ~Not at all, my good sir,
402 1    |          justice, according to your argument, is not only obedience to
403 1    |       design of injuring you in the argument? ~Nay, he replied, "suppose"
404 1    |          out, and by sheer force of argument you will never prevail. ~
405 1    |            got to this point in the argument, and everyone saw that the
406 1    |         from going through with the argument so long as I have reason
407 1    |          that to you?-to refute the argument is your business. ~Very
408 1    |           and take your fill of the argument; I will not oppose you,
409 1    |             ill? ~That is what your argument proves. ~And he who lives
410 2    |             then, I will revive the argument of Thrasymachus. And first
411 2    |           another side to Glaucon's argument about the praise and censure
412 2    |             easy. Nevertheless, the argument indicates this, if we would
413 2    |             at the beginning of the argument, when my brother and I told
414 2    |            point or to draw out the argument to an inconvenient length. ~
415 3    |             ought not to be, as the argument has just proved to us; and
416 3    |             as yet, but whither the argument may blow, thither we go. ~
417 3    |     conclusion to be drawn from the argument. ~The preferring of Apollo
418 3    |             and that others forget; argument steals away the hearts of
419 4    |      replied: proceed. ~I said: The argument seems to have reached a
420 5    |          thus assailing me: What an argument are you raising about the
421 5    |            mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only
422 5    |      Socrates, in case you and your argument do us any serious injury
423 5    |            holds at law may hold in argument. ~Then why should you mind? ~
424 5    |          that to do with us and our argument? ~A great deal; for there
425 5    |          him to accompany us in the argument, and then we may hope to
426 5    |  arrangement the consistency of the argument with itself bears witness. ~
427 5    |          And now you would have the argument show that this community
428 5    |           love, for the sake of the argument, I assent. ~And what do
429 6    |            thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the
430 6    |          little at each step in the argument, owing to their own want
431 6    |             you at each step of the argument, he sees as a fact that
432 6    |            being said, and then the argument turned aside and veiled
433 7    |            Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the
434 7    |           he replied. ~Whereas, our argument shows that the power and
435 7    |           tangible objects into the argument. You know how steadily the
436 7    |        chief aim in carrying on the argument is your own improvement;
437 7    |       should prefer to carry on the argument mainly on my own behalf. ~
438 8    |         with the conclusions of the argument to prefer justice. ~Certainly,
439 9    |           replied, but in this high argument you should be a little more
440 9    |        arrived at this stage of the argument, we may revert to the words
441 10   |         make good her defence, this argument of ours shall be a charm
442 10   |          have been convinced by the argument, as I believe that anyone
443 10   |         like to hear you state this argument of which you make so light.
444 10   |        demonstrated by the previous argument, and there are many other
445 10   |     fulfilled the conditions of the argument; we have not introduced
446 10   |            what you borrowed in the argument? ~What did I borrow? ~The
447 10   |            made for the sake of the argument, in order that pure justice
448 10   |       payment of the debt which the argument owes to them. ~Speak, he


The Second Alcibiades
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449 Text |        good-for-nothing, unless the argument has played us false.~ALCIBIADES:
450 Text |          Socrates: at least, if the argument is fallacious, it would


The Seventh Letter
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451 Text |        present subject. There is an argument which holds good against


The Sophist
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452 Intro|          Socrates from the field of argument, and the substitution for
453 Intro|             he will not tire of the argument, and in his conviction,
454 Intro|             one ever defeated in an argument, was separated, even in
455 Intro|      disputant, and higgles over an argument. A feature of the Eristic
456 Intro|            of the Cynics—unless the argument in the Protagoras, that
457 Intro|             Sophist as incapable of argument. They are probably the same
458 Intro|             of appearances. For the argument is asserting the existence
459 Intro|            Yet, for the sake of the argument, we may assume them to be
460 Intro|           of ways ‘is not.’ And the argument has shown that the pursuit
461 Text |             spy out our weakness in argument, and to cross-examine us?~
462 Text |              and if you tire of the argument, you may complain of your
463 Text |            am to keep pace with the argument.~STRANGER: Let us consider
464 Text |          acquisitive family, as the argument has already proven.~THEAETETUS:
465 Text |           discovered in the present argument; and let this be called
466 Text |             you should carry on the argument in the best way, and that
467 Text |   THEAETETUS: The difficulty of the argument can no further go.~STRANGER:
468 Text |             plural?~THEAETETUS: The argument implies that we should be
469 Text |      grapple with us and retort our argument upon ourselves; and when
470 Text |          the grasp of such a sturdy argument?~THEAETETUS: To be sure
471 Text |            lay hands on my father’s argument; for if I am to be over-scrupulous,
472 Text |            I have no heart for this argument?~THEAETETUS: I did.~STRANGER:
473 Text |        accordance with the rules of argument, and then their opinion
474 Text |           who want to carry out the argument and yet forbid us to call
475 Text |           of science in the path of argument? And will he not ask if
476 Text |          pursue the enquiry, as the argument suggests, not in relation
477 Text |        words this way and that, the argument will prove to him, that
478 Text |           criticize in detail every argument, and when a man says that
479 Text |            yourself and without any argument of mine, to that belief


The Statesman
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480 Intro|          the Stranger to finish the argument...~The Stranger suggests
481 Intro|             There is reason for the argument in favour of a property
482 Intro|        writings, but may be even an argument in their favour. If we suppose
483 Text |      probably the completion of the argument will best show what you
484 Text |             part or class which the argument aims at reaching,—the one
485 Text |         that you have completed the argument, and I suppose that you
486 Text |              STRANGER: And this the argument defined to be the art of
487 Text |         this is as you say, can our argument about the king be true and
488 Text |             bring disgrace upon the argument at its close.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
489 Text |     Statesman with the rest, as the argument seems to require.~YOUNG
490 Text |          let us resume the previous argument, and as there were innumerable
491 Text |             them, in order that the argument may proceed in a regular
492 Text |          was the point at which the argument eluded our grasp, so in
493 Text |      absolute truth; meanwhile, the argument that the very existence
494 Text |             which concerns not this argument only but the conduct of
495 Text |     enquirer without any trouble or argument; whereas the greatest and
496 Text |        YOUNG SOCRATES: That, as the argument has already intimated, will
497 Text |           was shown in the previous argument.~STRANGER: Thank you for
498 Text |          after many windings in the argument appears to have been most


The Symposium
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499 Intro|             is disposed to begin an argument. This is speedily repressed
500 Intro|              and then he throws his argument into the form of a speech (