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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| habitual irony acquires a new meaning and a sort of tragic pathos
2 Intro| wiser. What could be the meaning of this—that he who knew
3 Text | truth; for is such is their meaning, I admit that I am eloquent.
4 Text | to know, and find out the meaning of the oracle. And I swear
5 Text | and asked what was the meaning of them—thinking that they
6 Text | but do not understand the meaning of them. The poets appeared
7 Text | my good sir, is not my meaning. I want to know who the
8 Text | should like to show you the meaning of this event which has
Charmides
Part
9 PreS | follow,—as well as of the meaning of particular passages.
10 PreS | diverted from the exact meaning of the Greek; when we return
11 PreS | word of precisely the same meaning for another—is resented
12 PreS | the least difference of meaning or the least change of form
13 PreS | terms of very indefinite meaning in the more definite language
14 PreS | point where the change of meaning occurs. If translations
15 PreS | sacrifice the general effect and meaning to the over-precise rendering
16 PreS | Platonic, or Aristotelian meaning is retained. There are other
17 PreS | of the past has still a meaning for us.~III. In the preface
18 PreS | not yet acquired a fixed meaning. I have just said that Plato
19 PreS | in Shakespeare a hidden meaning. In the three cases the
20 PreS | become destitute of any real meaning.~(4) According to Dr. Jackson’
21 Text | whether these words have any meaning; and first tell me whether
22 Text | had another and a hidden meaning; for I do not think that
23 Text | that no one would know the meaning of the words ‘doing his
24 Text | replied.~And what is the meaning of a man doing his own business?
25 Text | temperance did not understand the meaning of his own words, because
26 Text | well be assumed to know the meaning of them; and therefore,
27 Text | does not know. That is your meaning?~Yes, he said.~Now then,
Cratylus
Part
28 Intro| form of dialogues, and his meaning, like that of other satirical
29 Intro| have had their original meaning so obscured, that they require
30 Intro| that which has a natural meaning. Thus nature, art, chance,
31 Intro| well made when they have a meaning. Of the process which he
32 Intro| difference, provided the meaning is retained. For example;
33 Intro| but they have the same meaning; and Agis (leader) is altogether
34 Intro| Zenos, has an excellent meaning, though hard to be understood,
35 Intro| proverb for stupidity; but the meaning is that Zeus himself is
36 Intro| accent changed; the original meaning being o anathron a opopen—
37 Intro| been originally polleidon, meaning, that the God knew many
38 Intro| supposed to have some dreadful meaning, but is susceptible of at
39 Intro| and has a foreign look—the meaning is, touching the motion
40 Intro| called the beautiful. The meaning of sumpheron is explained
41 Intro| change will alter their meaning very much. The word deon
42 Intro| imera; and this shows the meaning of the word to have been ‘
43 Intro| the sentence may retain a meaning. Better to admit this, that
44 Intro| admit to be their natural meaning. But then, why do the Eritreans
45 Intro| business has this in a word meaning hardness? ‘Why, Socrates,
46 Intro| correspondence of sound and meaning. But let me ask you what
47 Intro| the letters must have a meaning. The framers of language
48 Intro| would take of indicating his meaning. And language is the gesture
49 Intro| matter to mind, and their meaning is the very reverse of their
50 Intro| observation, that the etymological meaning of words is in process of
51 Intro| attempts to confine their meaning in the satire on Prodicus
52 Intro| old Homeric word emesato, meaning “he contrived”;’ ‘our forefathers,
53 Intro| sound, but apprehends the meaning: or we may imagine that
54 Intro| other. Whatever may be the meaning of a sentence or a word
55 Intro| words have exactly the same meaning. No two sounds are exactly
56 Intro| present to our minds the meaning or the sound or the construction
57 Intro| used only with the distinct meaning of ‘attention to our own
58 Intro| new words or to alter the meaning of old ones, except in the
59 Intro| attractions of sound or of meaning, or of both combined. So
60 Intro| means that the word or the meaning of the word or some portion
61 Intro| used only to define the meaning of them with greater precision.
62 Intro| It is not likely that the meaning of the cases is ultimately
63 Intro| the sense? Why does the meaning of words depart so widely
64 Intro| substantives often differ in meaning from the verbs to which
65 Intro| retaining their differences of meaning? Why are some verbs impersonal?
66 Intro| proportion of sound to sound, of meaning to meaning, of meaning to
67 Intro| to sound, of meaning to meaning, of meaning to sound. The
68 Intro| of meaning to meaning, of meaning to sound. The cases and
69 Intro| pattern and had the same meaning. The sounds by which they
70 Intro| The same verbs in the same meaning may sometimes take one case,
71 Intro| similarity of sound and meaning. In by far the greater number
72 Intro| or cadence to the general meaning or spirit of the passage.
73 Intro| assign a precise amount of meaning to each of the expressive
74 Intro| English equivalent, has the meaning of a deep sound. We may
75 Intro| in which differences of meaning and form have arisen in
76 Intro| writing and printing. (2) The meaning of words varies because
77 Intro| into a new sense: a new meaning caught up by association
78 Intro| there is a difference of meaning. The difference of gender
79 Intro| the cross influences of meaning and sound, of logic and
80 Intro| carefully preserved and that the meaning of them has either perished
81 Intro| have given a new shade of meaning to the thought and would
82 Intro| and style, is idiom. The meaning of the word ‘idiom’ is that
83 Intro| cannot argue either about the meaning of words or the use of constructions
84 Intro| even a little perverted in meaning when we are quite familiar
85 Intro| known words, even if their meaning be perverted, are more agreeable
86 Intro| verb or noun derives its meaning, not only from itself, but
87 Intro| the proposed extension of meaning or not. According to the
88 Intro| to each word a definite meaning or meanings. They both tend
89 Intro| to its own context. Its meaning is modified by what has
90 Text | Hermogenes: let us see;—Your meaning is, that the name of each
91 Text | the world:—that is your meaning?~HERMOGENES: He would, according
92 Text | ektor) have nearly the same meaning, and are both descriptive
93 Text | difference, provided the meaning is retained; nor does the
94 Text | matter. I may illustrate my meaning by the names of letters,
95 Text | long as we introduce the meaning, and there can be no mistake,
96 Text | need not interfere with the meaning. As was just now said, the
97 Text | and yet they have the same meaning. And how little in common
98 Text | of the city)—and yet the meaning is the same. And there are
99 Text | letters, but having the same meaning. Would you not say so?~HERMOGENES:
100 Text | should have an opposite meaning.~HERMOGENES: Certainly,
101 Text | difficulty in seeing the meaning, for whether you think of
102 Text | father, has also an excellent meaning, although hard to be understood,
103 Text | name, although divided, meaning the God through whom all
104 Text | the fact; for this is the meaning of his father’s name: Kronos
105 Text | do you consider to be the meaning of this word? Tell me if
106 Text | with you; but what is the meaning of the word ‘hero’? (Eros
107 Text | sprang: either this is the meaning, or, if not this, then they
108 Text | animals is rightly anthropos, meaning anathron a opopen.~HERMOGENES:
109 Text | suppose that this was the true meaning of the name.~HERMOGENES:
110 Text | are enquiring about the meaning of men in giving them these
111 Text | if you analyze them, a meaning is still discernible. For
112 Text | I do not understand the meaning of the name Tethys.~SOCRATES:
113 Text | lamda and not with a sigma, meaning that the God knew many things (
114 Text | mean ‘together,’ so the meaning of the name Apollo will
115 Text | HERMOGENES: What is the meaning of Dionysus and Aphrodite?~
116 Text | some error in the MSS. The meaning is that the word theonoa =
117 Text | unchangeable nature, which is the meaning of arratos: the latter is
118 Text | know whether there is any meaning in what Cratylus says.~SOCRATES:
119 Text | from aiolein, of which the meaning is the same as poikillein (
120 Text | light) have much the same meaning?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
121 Text | can tell me what is the meaning of the pur?~HERMOGENES:
122 Text | peri tou aera reon). The meaning of the word ge (earth) comes
123 Text | that I must consider the meaning of wisdom (phronesis) and
124 Text | until we find out their meaning.~SOCRATES: By the dog of
125 Text | be of native growth; the meaning is, touching the motion
126 Text | SOCRATES: There is the meaning of the word techne (art),
127 Text | possibly make out the original meaning of the word. Another example
128 Text | anein; for mekos has the meaning of greatness, and these
129 Text | should like to consider the meaning of the two words arete (
130 Text | appropriated to it. The meaning of kakos ienai may be further
131 Text | HERMOGENES: But what is the meaning of kakon, which has played
132 Text | aischron.~SOCRATES: The meaning of aischron is evident,
133 Text | opposites.~SOCRATES: The meaning of sumpheron (expedient)
134 Text | sister word to episteme, meaning just the motion (pora) of
135 Text | if you want to get at the meaning; for this word also signifies
136 Text | derived from ophellein, meaning that which creates and increases;
137 Text | zemiodes?~SOCRATES: What is the meaning of zemiodes?—let me remark,
138 Text | changes are made in the meaning of words by putting in and
139 Text | entirely altered the original meaning both of deon, and also of
140 Text | that you cannot tell the meaning, although there are some
141 Text | And zugon (yoke) has no meaning,—it ought to be duogon,
142 Text | deon (obligation) has a meaning which is the opposite of
143 Text | then agree with other words meaning good; for dion, not deon,
144 Text | seek)?~HERMOGENES: Yes;—meaning the same as zetein (to enquire).~
145 Text | eudein); but the original meaning of the word is disguised
146 Text | but I was carried away— meaning to say that this was the
147 Text | have not yet explained the meaning of this latter word, which
148 Text | impossible? For if this is your meaning I should answer, that there
149 Text | conventional, and have a meaning to those who have agreed
150 Text | know that I understand the meaning of the sound: this is what
151 Text | when I speak you know my meaning, there is an indication
152 Text | SOCRATES: This indication of my meaning may proceed from unlike
153 Text | things, and analyses their meaning, is in great danger of being
154 Text | conceive that to be the meaning of them?~CRATYLUS: Yes;
155 Text | that is assuredly their meaning, and the true meaning.~SOCRATES:
156 Text | their meaning, and the true meaning.~SOCRATES: Let us revert
Critias
Part
157 Intro| form, and he enquired their meaning and translated them. His
158 Text | I should like to make my meaning clearer, if you will follow
159 Text | cannot suitably express my meaning, you must excuse me, considering
160 Text | poem, enquired into the meaning of the names, and found
161 Text | language, and he recovered the meaning of the several names and
Crito
Part
162 Text | can be no doubt about the meaning, Crito, I think.~CRITO:
163 Text | I think.~CRITO: Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But,
Euthydemus
Part
164 Intro| escape ambiguities in the meaning of terms or in the structure
165 Intro| of the art, ‘What is the meaning of this paradox? Is there
166 Intro| things have no sense or meaning. Ctesippus again breaks
167 Intro| with different degrees of meaning: (2) The necessary limitation
168 Intro| appear to have a serious meaning; but we have lost the clue
169 Text | over.~He asked what was the meaning of this, and I replied:
170 Text | surely have some notion of my meaning, he said.~Yes, I replied.~
171 Text | according to your notion of my meaning.~Yes, I said; but if the
172 Text | according to your view of the meaning, because you will be prating,
Euthyphro
Part
173 Intro| to men. But what is the meaning of ‘attending’ to the gods?
174 Text | I do not understand your meaning, Socrates.~SOCRATES: I will
175 Text | think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and
176 Text | be intelligible; and my meaning is, that any state of action
177 Text | information, What is the meaning of ‘attention’? For attention
178 Text | gods?—that would be your meaning, Euthyphro?~EUTHYPHRO: Yes.~
179 Text | of us. There would be no meaning in an art which gives to
180 Text | Euthyphro, what is the meaning of gifts which are conferred
The First Alcibiades
Part
181 Text | SOCRATES: Yes, that is my meaning; and what is the excellence
182 Text | try to explain what is the meaning of ‘better,’ in the matter
183 Text | SOCRATES: Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over
184 Text | we are not, what is the meaning of a man taking care of
185 Text | have, I suppose, the same meaning?~ALCIBIADES: To be sure.~
186 Text | ignorant of the excellent meaning of the Delphian inscription,
187 Text | what I suspect to be the meaning and lesson of that inscription.
188 Text | what is the nature and meaning of this precept? Would not
189 Text | this precept? Would not his meaning be:—That the eye should
Gorgias
Part
190 Intro| he can even explain his meaning to Polus, he must enlighten
191 Intro| can hardly understand the meaning of Archelaus being miserable,
192 Intro| in order to explain his meaning to them, Socrates draws
193 Intro| fools? ‘Yes, that is my meaning.’ Ought the physician then
194 Intro| Phaedo. What then is his meaning? His meaning we shall be
195 Intro| then is his meaning? His meaning we shall be able to illustrate
196 Intro| conceal, half reveal, his meaning. The more he is in earnest,
197 Intro| time. Let us illustrate the meaning of his words by applying
198 Intro| the wild beast within us, meaning the passions which are always
199 Intro| frequently referred to, and the meaning breaks through so as rather
200 Intro| which is full of life and meaning to the reader. A poem may
201 Text | You perfectly conceive my meaning, Socrates.~SOCRATES: But
202 Text | and power: and I take your meaning to be that rhetoric is an
203 Text | your apprehension of my meaning.~SOCRATES: Well, then, let
204 Text | anticipating and suspecting the meaning of one another’s words;
205 Text | do not know what my own meaning is as yet. When the assembly
206 Text | have misunderstood your meaning. You say that you can make
207 Text | advantage, and that this is the meaning of great power; and if not,
208 Text | is shameful and unjust; meaning, by the word injustice,
209 Text | the exact words, but the meaning is, that without buying
210 Text | CALLICLES: What is your meaning, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will
211 Text | using words which have no meaning and that you are explaining
212 Text | Or, if this is not your meaning, perhaps you would say that
213 Text | one may know that to be my meaning.~CALLICLES: Quite so, Socrates;
214 Text | all the souls in Hades, meaning the invisible world (aeides),
215 Text | another, as if you were meaning to deceive me. And yet I
Ion
Part
216 Text | does not understand the meaning of the poet. For the rhapsode
217 Text | you like me to explain my meaning, Ion?~ION: Yes, indeed,
218 Text | same, there would be no meaning in saying that the arts
Laches
Part
219 Text | SOCRATES: Let me try to make my meaning plainer then. I do not think
220 Text | mean. Then let me make my meaning plainer in this way. Suppose
221 Text | true.~SOCRATES: That was my meaning when I said that I was to
222 Text | thus unable to express my meaning. For I fancy that I do know
223 Text | SOCRATES: Do you understand his meaning, Laches?~LACHES: Yes; I
Laws
Book
224 1 | supposing this to be your meaning?~Cleinias. Certainly; and
225 1 | now quite understand your meaning when you say that citizens
226 1 | their name is, provided the meaning is clear.~Megillus. Then
227 1 | me quite to have hit the meaning of the legislator, and to
228 1 | find a way of explaining my meaning, and you shall try to have
229 1 | Then let us not leave the meaning of education ambiguous or
230 1 | have been lost, and the meaning of the expression “superior
231 1 | endeavour to explain my meaning more clearly: what I am
232 1 | suppose that he will say, Yes—meaning that wine is such a potion.~
233 2 | what is the character and meaning of the piece, and what it
234 2 | difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm,
235 3 | Cleinias. I understand your meaning, and you are quite right.~
236 3 | more than the whole? His meaning was, that when to take the
237 4 | that you must understand my meaning.~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
238 4 | democracy: is not that your meaning?~Athenian. Not so; I mean
239 4 | houses according to law, meaning by the very term “law,”
240 6 | elicited a question about my meaning from you. It was this:—We
241 7 | or indeed as having any meaning whatever and may, I think,
242 7 | rather I will show you my meaning by a question, and do you
243 7 | explain to us your whole meaning, and we, on our part, will
244 7 | difficulty in understanding my meaning, but not a very great one,
245 7 | example which will clear up my meaning, and will be a sort of witness
246 8 | not as yet understand your meaning.~Athenian. Very likely;
247 9 | involuntary, or we must show the meaning and truth of this statement.~
248 10 | and examine what is the meaning of them and their disciples.~
249 10 | Athenian. I will explain my meaning still more clearly. They
250 10 | conjecture of ours about his meaning, but is what he really means.~
251 10 | You have understood my meaning right well, Cleinias, and
252 12 | endeavour to explain my meaning by an ancient tale:—If Patroclus
253 12 | otherwise there would be no meaning the divine and admirable
254 12 | stated they would have no meaning.~Cleinias. What then are
Lysis
Part
255 Intro| love and marriage. The very meaning of the word has become slighter
256 Text | Yes, he said; that is my meaning.~But what if the lover is
257 Text | altogether, right, if their meaning were rightly apprehended
258 Text | That is true.~But the real meaning of the saying, as I imagine,
259 Text | to follow me, and my own meaning will be clearer to myself.
Meno
Part
260 Intro| that he does not know the meaning of the word ‘colour;’ and
261 Intro| seriously as having a distinct meaning. They are parables, prophecies,
262 Intro| incongruities, there is a common meaning or spirit which pervades
263 Intro| their substance and general meaning the same, although they
264 Intro| perceive to be the real meaning of them, an explanation
265 Intro| Latin, and putting a new meaning into them. Unlike ancient
266 Intro| word to which no distinct meaning could be attached. Abstractions
267 Text | believe that I understand your meaning.~SOCRATES: And you would
268 Text | as Pindar says, ‘read my meaning:’—colour is an effluence
269 Text | virtue; what else is the meaning of saying that every action
270 Text | he will know what is the meaning of defamation, and if he
Parmenides
Part
271 Intro| being is many.’ ‘Such is my meaning.’ ‘I see,’ said Socrates,
272 Intro| things. But tell me, is your meaning that things become like
273 Intro| ideas?’ ‘Yes, that is my meaning.’ ‘And do you suppose the
274 Intro| cover to many—that is your meaning?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And would you
275 Intro| Socrates. ‘I may illustrate my meaning in this way: one of us has
276 Intro| slave to us.—Do you see my meaning?’ ‘Perfectly.’ ‘And absolute
277 Intro| all predicates. When the meaning of one has been reduced
278 Intro| their strictest arithmetical meaning. That one is three or three
279 Intro| have precisely the same meaning; there is no notion of one
280 Intro| there be a word devoid of meaning, or an idea which is an
281 Intro| could never have had any meaning, even to himself, if he
282 Intro| rigid examination of its meaning, as if the general idea
283 Intro| which had really no distinct meaning. One sort of them, faith,
284 Intro| perfect representation of our meaning. In like manner when we
285 Intro| understanding about the meaning of words; because we know
286 Intro| having first tested their meaning and quality, and having
287 Text | done, he said: What is your meaning, Zeno? Do you maintain that
288 Text | arguments? Is that your meaning, or have I misunderstood
289 Text | said Socrates that is my meaning.~Then each individual partakes
290 Text | including many—is not that your meaning?~I think so.~And would you
291 Text | Socrates.~I may illustrate my meaning in this way, said Parmenides:—
292 Text | ourselves. Do you see my meaning?~Yes, said Socrates, I quite
293 Text | Socrates, I quite see your meaning.~And will not knowledge—
294 Text | Yes; we ought.~What is the meaning of the hypothesis—If the
295 Text | knowledge of it, or the very meaning of the words, ‘if one is
Phaedo
Part
296 Intro| the soul. And this was the meaning of the founders of the mysteries
297 Intro| ceased to have any longer a meaning; yet they are satisfied
298 Text | scruple which I felt about the meaning of certain dreams. In the
299 Text | force. For what can be the meaning of a truly wise man wanting
300 Text | appear to have had a real meaning, and were not talking nonsense
301 Text | but few are the mystics,’—meaning, as I interpret the words, ‘
302 Text | would in the end have no meaning, because all other things
303 Text | some other sense (for the meaning of perceiving through the
304 Text | thought that I understood the meaning of greater and less pretty
305 Text | should like to explain my meaning more clearly, as I do not
Phaedrus
Part
306 Intro| we can attach any serious meaning to his words. Had he lived
307 Intro| he proceeds with a deep meaning, though partly in joke,
308 Intro| manners were unknown. The meaning of this and other wild language
309 Intro| Parmenides have no allegorical meaning, and that the poet is only
310 Intro| prophecies of Scripture, the meaning is allowed to break through
311 Intro| writings that this was his meaning. Or, again, when he explains
312 Intro| allegory which allows the meaning to come through. The image
313 Intro| We must not attribute a meaning to every fanciful detail.
314 Intro| praise in like manner, ‘meaning ourselves,’ without regard
315 Text | pleasures which cannot be had, meaning sweet things which, like
316 Text | them; and therefore the meaning of this saying is not hastily
317 Text | SOCRATES: Perhaps that is my meaning. But let us leave them.
318 Text | notions and so make his meaning clear.~PHAEDRUS: What is
Philebus
Part
319 Intro| conceptions. If we attend to the meaning of the words, we are compelled
320 Intro| fourth class. Fourthly, the meaning of the allusion to a sixth
321 Intro| naturally infer to be his meaning, when we consider that both
322 Intro| consideration:—What is the meaning of pure and impure, of moderate
323 Intro| happiness in this, and the meaning of the word becomes indistinguishable
324 Intro| in this extension of the meaning, but a word which admits
325 Intro| virtue, love, have a simple meaning; they have become sacred
326 Intro| character. We give them a meaning often paradoxical and distorted,
327 Intro| bodily sense adhering to the meaning of the word.~Again: the
328 Intro| among themselves about the meaning of the word. Still less
329 Intro| nature of happiness. The meaning of the word is always insensibly
330 Intro| a notion so uncertain in meaning, so void of content, so
331 Intro| are rubbed off, and the meaning of its most characteristic
332 Intro| sentence which is full of meaning to reformers of religion
333 Text | SOCRATES: I may illustrate my meaning by the letters of the alphabet,
334 Text | SOCRATES: Yes, that is my meaning.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
335 Text | SOCRATES: Then now we know the meaning of the word?~PROTARCHUS:
336 Text | what you mean.~SOCRATES: My meaning is certainly not obvious,
337 Text | many would suppose to be my meaning; but, says the argument,
338 Text | now do you understand my meaning?~PROTARCHUS: I am trying
339 Text | you will try to make your meaning clearer.~SOCRATES: When
340 Text | boy, I dare say that the meaning will become clearer.~PROTARCHUS:
Protagoras
Part
341 Intro| transcendental, and though full of meaning and insight, hardly intelligible
342 Text | COMPANION: What is the meaning of this? Has anything happened
343 Text | you, I said; and is your meaning that you teach the art of
344 Text | get time to think what the meaning of the poet really was.
345 Text | awful’ war, ‘awful’ poverty, meaning by the term ‘awful,’ evil.
346 Text | that was certainly his meaning; and he is twitting Pittacus
347 Text | Protagoras, that this was the meaning of Simonides, of which our
348 Text | other. For if this be his meaning, Prodicus would impute to
349 Text | I imagine to be the real meaning of Simonides in this poem,
350 Text | saying, terse and full of meaning, with unerring aim; and
351 Text | follows shows this to be the meaning. A great deal might be said
352 Text | Protagoras, I take to be the meaning of Simonides in this poem.~
353 Text | cannot interrogate about the meaning of what they are saying;
354 Text | some that the poet has one meaning, and others that he has
355 Text | will ask you to define your meaning, and I shall not take you
356 Text | Certainly, he said.~Then my meaning is, that in as far as they
357 Text | difficulty in explaining the meaning of the expression ‘overcome
358 Text | and Socrates, what is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure
359 Text | This, therefore, is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure; —
The Republic
Book
360 1 | and inspired man, but his meaning, though probably clear to
361 1 | That must have been his meaning, he said. ~By heaven! I
362 1 | to enemies. ~That is his meaning, then? ~I think so. ~And
363 1 | which we affirmed to be the meaning of Simonides. ~Very true,
364 1 | right one?-is that your meaning?"-How would you answer him? ~
365 1 | What, Thrasymachus, is the meaning of this? You cannot mean
366 1 | is most apparent; and my meaning will be most clearly seen
367 1 | that I misapprehend your meaning, Thrasymachus, I replied;
368 1 | difficulty in understanding my meaning when I asked the question
369 1 | thing? ~I understand your meaning, he said, and assent. ~And
370 2 | what I believe to be his meaning. Parents and tutors are
371 2 | I do not apprehend your meaning. ~The trait of which I am
372 2 | I do not understand your meaning, he said. ~You know, I said,
373 2 | Very true. ~That was my meaning when I said that we must
374 2 | supposed to have an allegorical meaning or not. For a young person
375 2 | attribute some profound meaning to my words; but I am only
376 2 | instruction of the young, meaning, as we do, that our guardians,
377 3 | off in illustration of my meaning. You know the first lines
378 3 | order that I may make my meaning quite clear, and that you
379 3 | You have conceived my meaning perfectly; and if I mistake
380 3 | What do you mean? ~My meaning may be learned from Homer;
381 3 | loss of a resolution; the meaning of the unwilling I have
382 4 | or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical
383 4 | denoted. ~Certainly. ~The meaning is, I believe, that in the
384 4 | will understand my original meaning in what I said about relatives.
385 4 | said about relatives. My meaning was, that if one term of
386 4 | things. ~Yes; that is the meaning, he said. ~And are there
387 4 | injustice be known, then the meaning of acting unjustly and being
388 5 | considered at all what was the meaning of sameness or difference
389 6 | reverse, and what is the meaning of his several cries, and
390 6 | not quite understand your meaning, he said. ~Then I will try
391 6 | have quite conceived my meaning, I said; and now, corresponding
392 7 | Will you explain your meaning? he said. ~I will try, I
393 7 | said, that is not at all my meaning. ~Then what is your meaning? ~
394 7 | meaning. ~Then what is your meaning? ~When speaking of uninviting
395 7 | illustration will make my meaning clearer: here are three
396 7 | soft? What, again, is the meaning of light and heavy, if that
The Second Alcibiades
Part
397 Text | enquire if he were at home, meaning to slay only him and no
398 Text | will suffer, but the poet’s meaning is clear;—‘Margites knew
The Sophist
Part
399 Intro| facts: and, 1, about the meaning of the word there arises
400 Intro| distinguished. Sometimes the generic meaning has been narrowed to the
401 Intro| other cases the specific meaning has been enlarged or altered.
402 Intro| the like. Sometimes the meaning is both narrowed and enlarged;
403 Intro| effect is produced on the meaning of a word when the very
404 Intro| this tends to define the meaning. Or, again, the opposite
405 Intro| those words of which the meaning has been both contracted
406 Intro| in art,’ without any bad meaning attaching to it (Symp.;
407 Intro| Isocrates. Changes in the meaning of words can only be made
408 Intro| extended and envenomed the meaning, or that he may have done
409 Intro| annihilate the positive meaning of the word ‘just’: at least,
410 Intro| that ‘not-just’ has no more meaning than ‘not-honourable’—that
411 Intro| word ‘not,’ besides the meaning of ‘other,’ may also imply ‘
412 Intro| each other. What is the meaning of these words, ‘same’ and ‘
413 Intro| according to the natural meaning of them. Nothing can be
414 Intro| combination? Some words have a meaning when combined, and others
415 Intro| combined, and others have no meaning. One class of words describes
416 Intro| only receive their true meaning when they are incorporated
417 Intro| away unheeded, and their meaning, like that of some hieroglyphic,
418 Intro| question which is so full of meaning to Plato and Hegel.~They
419 Intro| readiest illustration of his meaning in conceiving all philosophy
420 Intro| most inflated with a false meaning. They have been handed down
421 Intro| the parts derived their meaning from one another and from
422 Intro| true that the part has no meaning when separated from the
423 Intro| Wallace’s Hegel). The true meaning of Aristotle has been disguised
424 Intro| that they have the same meaning in modern and ancient philosophy?
425 Intro| another. But is there any meaning in reintroducing the forms
426 Intro| with the hardness of their meaning. Secondly, the use of technical
427 Intro| new language of uncertain meaning which he with difficulty
428 Intro| never considers that the meaning of a word may have nothing
429 Intro| by Hegel to derive their meaning from one another. This is
430 Intro| have no words in which our meaning can be expressed. Such an
431 Intro| affirm that words have no meaning when taken out of their
432 Intro| we recognize that their meaning is to a great extent due
433 Text | want to know what is the meaning of food for the soul; the
434 Text | you do not understand the meaning of ‘all.’~THEAETETUS: No,
435 Text | first understood your own meaning, whereas we once thought
436 Text | Certainly they do.~STRANGER: Meaning to say that the soul is
437 Text | STRANGER: But then, what is the meaning of these two words, ‘same’
438 Text | that words which have a meaning when in sequence may be
439 Text | that words which have no meaning when in sequence cannot
The Statesman
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440 Intro| of man.~I will explain my meaning by an illustration:—Suppose
441 Intro| serving-men. A good deal of meaning is lurking in the expression—‘
442 Text | as we proceed, to make my meaning a little clearer.~YOUNG
443 Text | see that you enter into my meaning;—no, that blessed and spontaneous
444 Text | weaving, to illustrate our meaning?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
445 Text | discovered to have a twofold meaning. For the distinction of
446 Text | YOUNG SOCRATES: What is your meaning?~STRANGER: The workmen begin
447 Text | you mean.~STRANGER: The meaning is, that the opinion about
The Symposium
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448 Intro| happiness, although the meaning of the word has been too
449 Intro| him to its common-sense meaning of love between intelligent
450 Text | this must have been the meaning of Heracleitus, although
451 Text | in order to illustrate my meaning: Is not a brother to be
452 Text | nothing else, is not your meaning that you want to have what
453 Text | explanation.’ ‘I will make my meaning clearer,’ she replied. ‘
454 Text | my expense? Is that the meaning of your praise?~I am going
455 Text | only words which have a meaning in them, and also the most
Theaetetus
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456 Intro| succeeded in making his meaning plain, Socrates proceeds
457 Intro| understanding an opponent’s meaning, which are conceived in
458 Intro| minds could be compared; the meaning of the word ‘science’ could
459 Intro| order to illustrate his meaning let me suppose that there
460 Intro| perception,” have all the same meaning. And this is thy new-born
461 Intro| known to us, but not the meaning of them.’~‘Excellent; I
462 Intro| Socrates?’~I will illustrate my meaning by the jest of the witty
463 Intro| attempt to express their meaning.~At the close of the discussion,
464 Intro| have a much more distinct meaning to us than the combination
465 Intro| more, then, we must ask the meaning of the statement, that ‘
466 Intro| Yet there may be a third meaning of the definition, besides
467 Intro| they first begin to have a meaning (onomaton sumploke logou
468 Intro| The first account of the meaning of the word is the reflection
469 Intro| language, and understanding the meaning of them; and d. the distinction
470 Intro| difficulty in attaching a meaning.~Yet, in spite of Plato
471 Intro| forgot to enquire into the meaning of experience, and did not
472 Intro| a question which has no meaning. We should rather say that
473 Intro| are suspected of having no meaning. Man is to bring himself
474 Intro| challenged the received meaning of words: they have regarded
475 Intro| difficulty of what is the meaning of the word. Does it differ
476 Intro| by them.~d. The uncertain meaning of terms, such as Consciousness,
477 Text | what I believe to be my meaning: When you speak of cobbling,
478 Text | and then you will see my meaning better:—No woman, as you
479 Text | have truly explained his meaning.~SOCRATES: Then now apply
480 Text | sufficiently explain my meaning: Here are six dice, which
481 Text | SOCRATES: Exactly; that is my meaning.~THEAETETUS: I answer, they
482 Text | only perception; and the meaning turns out to be the same,
483 Text | person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly
484 Text | letter, but to take the meaning of them as I will explain
485 Text | clearer agreement about his meaning, for a great deal may be
486 Text | SOCRATES: I will illustrate my meaning, Theodorus, by the jest
487 Text | further from understanding his meaning; above all I fear that the
488 Text | issue:—If there were any meaning in asking whether sounds
489 Text | Homer says in a parable, meaning to indicate the likeness
490 Text | That I believe to be my meaning, I shall reply.~THEAETETUS:
491 Text | explain the word ‘to know’ as meaning ‘to have knowledge.’~THEAETETUS:
492 Text | same words? I will make my meaning clearer by an example:—You
493 Text | before us, which is the meaning of the statement, that right
494 Text | SOCRATES: Well, and what is the meaning of the term ‘explanation’?
495 Text | In the first place, the meaning may be, manifesting one’
496 Text | write Th and e; but, again, meaning to write the name of Theododorus,
497 Text | to right opinion? If the meaning is, that we should form
Timaeus
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498 Intro| interpretation which could elicit any meaning out of any words. They were
499 Intro| a defect of rhythm; the meaning is sometimes obscure, and
500 Intro| in which to express his meaning. The rugged grandeur of