The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world,


Charmides
    Part
  2 Text |        between any other true and false professor of knowledge.
  3 Text |           true physician from the false, how will he proceed? He


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|         vocation as a detector of false knowledge, lights by accident
  5 Intro|          is in words a true and a false, as there are true and false
  6 Intro|      false, as there are true and false propositions. If a whole
  7 Intro|      whole proposition be true or false, then the parts of a proposition
  8 Intro|        proposition may be true or false, and the least parts as
  9 Intro|    therefore names may be true or false. Would Hermogenes maintain
 10 Intro|           two forms, a true and a false; and is in the upper part
 11 Intro|      would these words be true or false? ‘I should say that they
 12 Intro|  representation true and right or false and wrong? Cratylus admits
 13 Intro|       pictures may give a true or false representation, but denies
 14 Intro|         names are true and others false, we can only decide between
 15 Intro|   explicit,’ and the like, have a false clearness or comprehensiveness,
 16 Intro|       strip off from language the false appearances in which grammar
 17 Text |          is in words a true and a false?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~
 18 Text |            And there are true and false propositions?~HERMOGENES:
 19 Text |         says that which is, and a false proposition says that which
 20 Text |   proposition there is a true and false?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~
 21 Text |      propositions may be true and false, names may be true and false?~
 22 Text |      false, names may be true and false?~HERMOGENES: So we must
 23 Text |           has two forms, true and false?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~
 24 Text |         nonsense would be true or false, or partly true and partly
 25 Text |         or partly true and partly false:—which is all that I want
 26 Text |         and in the case of names, false as well as wrong.~CRATYLUS:


Euthydemus
    Part
 27 Intro|     refutation and explanation of false philosophies still hovering
 28 Text |       proposition whether true or false. Now I am thinking, Crito,
 29 Text |      showing, no one says what is false; but if Dionysodorus says
 30 Text |         there is no such thing as false opinion?~No, he said.~Then
 31 Text |          there be no falsehood or false opinion or ignorance, there


Euthyphro
    Part
 32 Intro|        the antithesis of true and false religion, which is carried


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 33 Text |          what you say is probably false.~ALCIBIADES: How so?~SOCRATES:


Gorgias
    Part
 34 Intro|        dialogue. The true and the false in individuals and states,
 35 Intro|       under the forms of true and false art. In the development
 36 Intro|          flatterers. The true and false finally appear before the
 37 Intro|      belief may be either true or false,—there is therefore a further
 38 Intro|           Polus are also due to a false antithesis of pleasure and
 39 Intro|           antagonism the true and false life, and to contrast the
 40 Intro|         their health; if they are false or dishonest, they will
 41 Intro|           is the true and who the false statesman?—~The true statesman
 42 Intro|           heaven’ (Republic).~The false politician is the serving-man
 43 Intro|          guide her into port.~The false politician asks not what
 44 Text |        you, ‘Is there, Gorgias, a false belief as well as a true?’—
 45 Text |    SOCRATES: Well, but is there a false knowledge as well as a true?~
 46 Text |        gymnastic, and is knavish, false, ignoble, illiberal, working
 47 Text |      sworn down by a multitude of false witnesses who have a great
 48 Text |         although you produce many false witnesses against me, in
 49 Text |          what is true and what is false in this matter, for the


Laws
    Book
 50 2    |         judged of by pleasure and false opinion; and this is true
 51 2    |          the intention is true or false.~Cleinias. Certainly not.~
 52 4    |         yes, this is one of those false principles of government
 53 5    |        than the soul; and this is false, for there is nothing of
 54 5    |         himself, not allowing any false shame to stand in the way.
 55 7    |         like us to be spreading a false report of them.~Cleinias.
 56 9    |       this want of education, the false praise of wealth which is
 57 10   |    deliberation, opinion true and false, joy and sorrow, confidence,
 58 10   |         which is both impious and false.~Athenian. I think that
 59 11   |          he says or does anything false or deceitful or dishonest,
 60 11   |           hateful to them takes a false oath, and pays no heed to
 61 11   |       they should be charged with false witness. And either of the
 62 11   |       preserve the accusations of false witness, and have them kept
 63 11   |        the day when the trial for false witness takes place. If
 64 11   |         man be twice convicted of false witness, he shall not be
 65 11   |   evidence is rightly found to be false, and yet to have given the
 66 11   |       suit was determined by that false evidence or and in whichever
 67 12   |          or an ambassador carry a false message from our city to
 68 12   |        any other, or bring back a false message from the city to
 69 12   |          very careful of bringing false witness against any one,
 70 12   |         nothing to be gained by a false oath; but all cases in which


Lysis
    Part
 71 Intro|       also a contrast between the false, exaggerated, sentimental
 72 Text |      argument about friendship is false: arguments, like men, are


Meno
    Part
 73 Intro|         because the conception of false opinion is given up as hopeless.


Phaedo
    Part
 74 Text |          while he turns out to be false and knavish; and then another
 75 Text |         afterwards imagines to be false, whether really false or
 76 Text |          be false, whether really false or not, and then another
 77 Text |         and then turned out to be false, and instead of blaming
 78 Text |        the grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil


Phaedrus
    Part
 79 Intro|          tradition) are first the false or conventional art of rhetoric;
 80 Intro|      adduced as an example of the false rhetoric; the first speech
 81 Text |  recantation, which began thus,—~‘False is that word of mine—the
 82 Text |     declaring that they have been false to their agreement and guilty
 83 Text |       love, which whether true or false certainly gave clearness
 84 Text |          said by us of a true and false art of speaking.~PHAEDRUS:


Philebus
    Part
 85 Intro|       kinds of pleasure, true and false opinion, the nature of the
 86 Intro|         and insists that the term false may be applied to them:
 87 Intro|   although the calculation may be false, or the after-effects painful.
 88 Intro|        like opinions, be true and false? In the sense of being real,
 89 Intro|           that there are true and false pleasures, we all acknowledge
 90 Intro|        them may be either true or false; and they may represent
 91 Intro|     sometimes true, and sometimes false; for the good, who are the
 92 Intro|           the future, and the bad false ones. And as there may be
 93 Intro|   pleasure still,—that is to say, false pleasure; and only when
 94 Intro|           pleasure; and only when false, can pleasure, like opinion,
 95 Intro|           that some pleasures are false from another point of view.
 96 Intro|       pleasures and pains are not false because based upon false
 97 Intro|          false because based upon false opinion, but are themselves
 98 Intro|       opinion, but are themselves false. And there is another illusion:
 99 Intro|     impure—the art which uses the false rule and the false measure?
100 Intro|       uses the false rule and the false measure? That we must, if
101 Intro|          been undermined in us by false philosophy or the practice
102 Intro|    expression we seem to detect a false ring, for pleasure is individual
103 Text |          are speaking are true or false? or some true and some false?~
104 Text |      false? or some true and some false?~PROTARCHUS: But how, Socrates,
105 Text |            Socrates, can there be false pleasures and pains?~SOCRATES:
106 Text | Protarchus, can there be true and false fears, or true and false
107 Text |          false fears, or true and false expectations, or true and
108 Text |         expectations, or true and false opinions?~PROTARCHUS: I
109 Text |           opinions may be true or false, but not pleasures.~SOCRATES:
110 Text |           that some pleasures are false, and others true?~PROTARCHUS:
111 Text |          opinion be both true and false, and pleasure true only,
112 Text |    opinion which is not true, but false?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly it
113 Text |       were saying, the opinion is false, but no one could call the
114 Text |          call the actual pleasure false.~SOCRATES: How eagerly,
115 Text |          there is such a thing as false, and also such a thing as
116 Text |          upon these—upon true and false opinion, I mean.~PROTARCHUS:
117 Text |     writes falsely, the result is false.~PROTARCHUS: I quite assent
118 Text |        and words are true, and to false opinions and words false;
119 Text |          false opinions and words false; are they not?~PROTARCHUS:
120 Text |    presented to them, and the bad false pictures?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
121 Text |           I presume that they are false pleasures.~PROTARCHUS: They
122 Text |          then commonly delight in false pleasures, and the good
123 Text |          upon this view there are false pleasures in the souls of
124 Text |        And this was the source of false opinion and opining; am
125 Text |          like; are they not often false?~PROTARCHUS: Quite so.~SOCRATES:
126 Text |           far as they are true or false?~PROTARCHUS: In no other
127 Text |      except in so far as they are false.~PROTARCHUS: Nay, Socrates,
128 Text |        pains bad because they are false, but by reason of some other
129 Text |      argument that there are many false pleasures existing or coming
130 Text |        the opinions were true and false, and infected the pleasures
131 Text |           are said to be true and false because they are seen at
132 Text |      beings, which are still more false than these.~PROTARCHUS:
133 Text |      uncertain art which uses the false measure and the false circle?~
134 Text |         the false measure and the false circle?~PROTARCHUS: Yes,


Protagoras
    Part
135 Intro|         of good and bad, true and false, but of the old art of rhetoric
136 Text |         you have not proved to be false, although you proceeded
137 Text |        not ignorance the having a false opinion and being deceived


The Republic
    Book
138 2    |       justice. If he have taken a false step he must be able to
139 2    |         reputation and add on the false, we shall say that you do
140 2    |  literature may be either true or false? ~Yes. ~And the young should
141 2    |      kinds, and we begin with the false? ~I do not understand your
142 4    |           with law about real and false dangers I call and maintain
143 6    |       weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length
144 6    |          while they are leading a false and unbecoming life, other
145 6    |       care that I do not render a false account, although I have
146 7    |     anything than entertain these false notions and live in this
147 7    |       knows. But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the
148 7    |         our conclusion be true or false, let us assume all this,
149 7    |        when he is ignorant of the false relation, and then again
150 8    |        form, then the others were false; and of the false forms,
151 8    |     others were false; and of the false forms, you said, as I remember,
152 8    |         sentinels. ~None better. ~False and boastful conceits and
153 8    |         by the favorite method of false accusation he brings them
154 9    |           turn informers and bear false witness and take bribes. ~
155 9    |          disapprover is wrong and false and ignorant? ~Yes, from


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
156 Text |        the argument has played us false.~ALCIBIADES: But I do not


The Seventh Letter
    Part
157 Text |       beginning, the true and the false about all that has real
158 Text |          over his enemies, took a false step and fell, a catastrophe


The Sophist
    Part
159 Intro|        imaginary impersonation of false opinion. Yet he denies the
160 Intro|         denies the possibility of false opinion; for falsehood is
161 Intro|         that a proposition may be false as well as true. The Sophist,
162 Intro|    Not-being. Falsehood is wholly false; and to speak of true falsehood,
163 Intro|        proved by experience to be false,’ and from such examples
164 Intro|         one is true and the other false. But, before making this
165 Intro|      not-honourable’ is neither a false nor an unmeaning proposition.
166 Intro|    particulars of sense under the false and apparent, so Plato appears
167 Intro|           nature of knowledge and false opinion. But the nature
168 Intro|        opinion. But the nature of false opinion seemed impenetrable;
169 Intro|        can speak of falsehood, or false opinion, or imitation, without
170 Intro|    hypotheses are thus seen to be false. The third (3) remains,
171 Intro|         though they were. Here is false discourse in the shortest
172 Intro|        proved to be both true and false. For thought is only the
173 Intro|         speech, admit of true and false. And we have discovered
174 Intro|            And we have discovered false opinion, which is an encouraging
175 Intro|          the most inflated with a false meaning. They have been
176 Text |         be said.~STRANGER: Again, false opinion is that form of
177 Text |    STRANGER: You mean to say that false opinion thinks what is not?~
178 Text |         Of course.~STRANGER: Does false opinion think that things
179 Text |            STRANGER: And does not false opinion also think that
180 Text |   STRANGER: And in like manner, a false proposition will be deemed
181 Text |           no other way in which a false proposition can arise.~STRANGER:
182 Text |           for him in the class of false workers and magicians, you
183 Text |          no one when he speaks of false words, or false opinion,
184 Text |         speaks of false words, or false opinion, or idols, or images,
185 Text |        not-being has a part, then false opinion and false speech
186 Text |            then false opinion and false speech are possible, for
187 Text |          and neither of them ever false.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
188 Text |         The one, as I imagine, is false, and the other true.~STRANGER:
189 Text |            Yes.~STRANGER: And the false says what is other than
190 Text |         verbs is really and truly false discourse.~THEAETETUS: Most
191 Text |        our minds both as true and false.~THEAETETUS: How so?~STRANGER:
192 Text |         that language is true and false, and that thought is the
193 Text |          you perceive, then, that false opinion and speech have
194 Text |        there has been shown to be false speech and false opinion,
195 Text |      shown to be false speech and false opinion, there may be imitations


The Statesman
    Part
196 Intro|     things,’ and may often give a false clearness to ideas. We shall
197 Intro|           Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman. There are several
198 Text |         my friend, who began with false opinion ever expect to arrive
199 Text |          what was paradoxical and false.~YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.~
200 Text |          we shall see who are the false politicians who pretend
201 Text |           they intentionally play false and leave you ashore when


The Symposium
    Part
202 Intro|           of him, whether true or false. He begs to be absolved
203 Intro|    greater refinement of the age. False sentiment is found in the


Theaetetus
    Part
204 Intro|       supplements the question of false opinion which is raised
205 Intro|         the difficulty respecting false opinion. The humorous illustrations,
206 Intro|         true opinion.’ But how is false opinion possible? The Megarian
207 Intro|  distinguish between the true and false analogy, and allow the negative
208 Intro|            in which perception is false; and half our life is spent
209 Intro|          between the true and the false in such cases? Having stated
210 Intro|         can any man be cured of a false opinion, for there is no
211 Intro|         we ask ourselves, ‘How is false opinion possible?’ This
212 Intro|         and forms an opinion. And false opinion consists in saying
213 Intro|        sort of natures which have false opinion; from stupidity
214 Intro|         there is no such thing as false opinion, or that a man knows
215 Intro|          of knowledge ever become false opinion? As well might we
216 Intro|         of our attempt to explain false opinion without having explained
217 Intro|       singular difficulty: How is false opinion possible? For we
218 Intro|          and pass beyond into the false. The very word doxa was
219 Intro|         than opinion is required.~False opinion is explained by
220 Intro|        attempt is made to explain false opinion by assigning to
221 Intro|       difference between true and false opinion is not the difference
222 Intro|        the true universal and the false. Thought may be as much
223 Intro|        got rid of, but it gives a false impression. For if we reflect
224 Intro|           partly sustained by the false analogy of Physical Science
225 Intro|          only bodily ones.~c. The false influence of language. We
226 Text |       will not be found guilty of false witness.~THEAETETUS: But
227 Text |       discernment of the true and false birth would be the crowning
228 Text |       young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true
229 Text |       illusions we certainly have false perceptions; and far from
230 Text |    whether his opinion is true or false, but each, as we have several
231 Text |      thought, and ignorance to be false opinion.~THEODORUS: Exactly.~
232 Text |      sometimes true and sometimes false? In either case, the result
233 Text |      sometimes true and sometimes false. For tell me, Theodorus,
234 Text |          think is true to you and false to the ten thousand others?~
235 Text |     believe his own opinion to be false; for he admits that the
236 Text |           that his own opinion is false, if he admits that the opinion
237 Text |    opinion of those who think him false is true?~THEODORUS: Of course.~
238 Text |            because there may be a false opinion; but I will venture
239 Text |            one true and the other false; and do you define knowledge
240 Text |        SOCRATES: How there can be false opinion—that difficulty
241 Text |    difficulty? Do we not speak of false opinion, and say that one
242 Text |          say that one man holds a false and another a true opinion,
243 Text |        say then? When a man has a false opinion does he think that
244 Text |         SOCRATES: Where, then, is false opinion? For if all things
245 Text |          this alternative, and so false opinion is excluded.~THEAETETUS:
246 Text |         necessarily think what is false, whatever in other respects
247 Text |           seem so.~SOCRATES: Then false opinion has no existence
248 Text |           May we not suppose that false opinion or thought is a
249 Text |         may be truly said to have false opinion.~THEAETETUS: Now
250 Text |           base, then he has truly false opinion.~SOCRATES: I see,
251 Text |        mistaken, that your ‘truly false’ is safe from censure, and
252 Text |         so you are satisfied that false opinion is heterodoxy, or
253 Text |  therefore, he who maintains that false opinion is heterodoxy is
254 Text |          in the previous way, can false opinion exist in us.~THEAETETUS:
255 Text |         he sees or hears, may not false opinion arise in the following
256 Text |        exclude the possibility of false opinion. The only cases,
257 Text |          in which I cannot form a false opinion about you and Theodorus,
258 Text |  affection, then ‘heterodoxy’ and false opinion ensues.~THEAETETUS:
259 Text |          in which, as we now say, false opinion may arise, when
260 Text |      becomes alternately true and false;—true when the seals and
261 Text |        meet straight and opposite—false when they go awry and crooked.~
262 Text |        are the natures which have false opinion; for when they see
263 Text |        may admit the existence of false opinion in us?~THEAETETUS:
264 Text |        you indeed discovered that false opinion arises neither in
265 Text |         waxen block, and in which false opinion is held to be impossible;
266 Text |           of the non-existence of false opinion, because otherwise
267 Text |         Most true.~SOCRATES: Then false opinion cannot be explained
268 Text |       obliged to say, either that false opinion does not exist,
269 Text |           knows, but he may get a false opinion about it; for he
270 Text |      opinion of what is, and thus false and true opinion may exist,
271 Text |           for another ever become false opinion?~THEAETETUS: What
272 Text |          and thus he would have a false opinion from ignorance,
273 Text |       takes ignorance will have a false opinion—am I right?~THEAETETUS:
274 Text |           not think that he has a false opinion?~THEAETETUS: Of
275 Text |          are wrong in seeking for false opinion until we know what
276 Text |  ascertained; then, the nature of false opinion?~THEAETETUS: I cannot


Timaeus
    Part
277 Intro|           the truth, and they are false and foolish, and have no
278 Intro|    notions which, whether true or false, have stimulated the minds
279 Intro|    engraved. The statement may be false—there are similar tales
280 Text |        the truth; and they become false and foolish, and there is