(...) The Symposium
    Part
501 Intro|      discourses begins with a short argument which overthrows not only
502 Intro|             urged upon Socrates the argument which he urges against Agathon.
503 Text |              Phaedrus, he said, the argument has not been set before
504 Text |             let us recapitulate the argument. First, is not love of something,
505 Text |             not quite following the argument. And first of all Aristophanes


Theaetetus
    Part
506 Intro|        qualities shine forth as the argument proceeds. Socrates takes
507 Intro|             digressions to the main argument, because he finds them easier
508 Intro|          the principal share in the argument is assigned, not to Socrates,
509 Intro|          the invincible Socrates in argument (except in the first part
510 Intro|           thesis by a cut-and-dried argument; nor does he imagine that
511 Intro|             cannot be approached in argument, because they cannot argue (
512 Intro|     opponent; and this is a mode of argument which disgusts men with
513 Intro|            Socrates now resumes the argument. As he is very desirous
514 Intro|         will Protagoras answer this argument? For he cannot say that
515 Intro|     digression?~‘Nay, Socrates, the argument is our servant, and not
516 Intro|             the courage to hear the argument out, he often becomes dissatisfied
517 Intro|         digressions better than the argument, because I understand them
518 Intro|             to be released from the argument, according to his agreement.
519 Intro|        admitted the justice of this argument any more than Heracleitus
520 Intro|            seeks to establish by an argument, which to us appears singular
521 Intro|       lively images under which the argument is described,—‘the flood
522 Intro|           which we live; and (as an argument to those who will only believe ‘
523 Text |            about to speak of a high argument, in which all things are
524 Text |           preserve; and the palmary argument of all, which I strongly
525 Text |            all who take his line of argument would remark.~THEAETETUS:
526 Text |          this tale on the preceding argument?~THEAETETUS: Indeed I do
527 Text |      SOCRATES: Let us not leave the argument unfinished, then; for there
528 Text |            of the other side of the argument, which is made by the champions
529 Text |          brutes, which is a telling argument with the multitude, but
530 Text |           was the real point of our argument, and with a view to this
531 Text |             say so, if the previous argument is to be maintained.~THEAETETUS:
532 Text |      victory, we walk away from the argument and crow.~THEAETETUS: How
533 Text |           they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even
534 Text |            he will say, come to the argument in a more generous spirit;
535 Text |            On these foundations the argument stands firm, which you,
536 Text |            overthrow by an opposite argument, or if you like you may
537 Text |         always behaving unfairly in argument. The unfairness of which
538 Text |            made to tell against his argument; he also declared that we
539 Text |          you and I must take up the argument, and in all seriousness,
540 Text |           avoid being drawn into an argument; and when I said just now
541 Text |           to try a fall with you in argument.~SOCRATES: There, Theodorus,
542 Text |             man can escape from any argument which you may weave for
543 Text |        reviewing or reinforcing the argument. But as he is not here,
544 Text |         would you have us treat the argument? Shall we say that the opinions
545 Text |           or shall we return to the argument? Do not let us abuse the
546 Text |             not the servants of the argument; but the argument is our
547 Text |            of the argument; but the argument is our servant, and must
548 Text |             the courage to hear the argument out, and do not run away,
549 Text |              and drown the original argument; to which, if you please,
550 Text |         wish, let us go back to the argument.~SOCRATES: Had we not reached
551 Text |             as for dwelling upon an argument or a question, and quietly
552 Text |          Socrates; and now that the argument about the doctrine of Protagoras
553 Text |             in the remainder of the argument.~THEAETETUS: Yes, if he
554 Text |    THEODORUS: Invite Socrates to an argument—invite horsemen to the open
555 Text |            be humble, and allow the argument to trample us under foot,
556 Text |            in a great strait, every argument should be turned over and
557 Text |         will say, according to that argument, the number eleven, which
558 Text |     Socrates.~SOCRATES: And yet the argument will scarcely admit of both.
559 Text |   reproaches just, and does not the argument truly show that we are wrong
560 Text |             which the author of the argument himself used.~THEAETETUS:
561 Text |            not; if we may trust the argument.~SOCRATES: Well, but will
562 Text |           SOCRATES: If, my boy, the argument, in speaking of adding the
563 Text |             is knowledge? this fair argument will answer ‘Right opinion
564 Text |   difference, for this, as the said argument maintains, is adding the


Timaeus
    Part
565 Intro|    distinguishing illustration from argument. Analogy in modern times
566 Intro|          they the same name?’—is an argument not easily answered in the
567 Intro|          may now return to the main argument: Why did God make the world?
568 Text |        would be enough. But now the argument seems to require that we
569 Text |             satisfied. And the same argument applies to the universal
570 Text |             them by an unaccustomed argument, which I am compelled to
571 Text |         brevity; in this manner our argument will best attain a due proportion.