The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |          What do I take to be the explanation of this silence? I will


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreS |           forward an entirely new explanation of the Platonic ‘Ideas.’


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|          ideas? Or if this latter explanation is refuted by his silence,
  4 Intro|        has begun, with a rational explanation of language. Still he preserves
  5 Intro|          and rhetoric; the double explanation of the name Hermogenes,
  6 Intro|        sophists are by a fanciful explanation converted into heroes; ‘
  7 Intro|        given by them he offers an explanation;—the boy was called Astyanax (‘
  8 Intro|         me; but when I ask for an explanation I am thought obtrusive,
  9 Intro|     letters at pleasure.’ And the explanation of this is custom or agreement:
 10 Intro|      Greek words are incapable of explanation. Allowing a good deal for
 11 Intro|           be observed. The common explanation of kata or some other preposition ‘
 12 Intro|    uniformly, and further that no explanation of language consistently
 13 Intro|           so complex that no true explanation of them can be given. So
 14 Text |         anxious to have a further explanation he is ironical and mysterious,
 15 Text |         that they will scorn this explanation. What do you say to another?~
 16 Text |           should like to hear the explanation.~SOCRATES: Say rather an
 17 Text |      serious and also a facetious explanation of both these names; the
 18 Text |          these names; the serious explanation is not to be had from me,
 19 Text |        SOCRATES: Then that is the explanation of the name Pallas?~HERMOGENES:
 20 Text |          I suspect to be the true explanation of this and several other
 21 Text |         able to give a very lucid explanation of first names, or let him
 22 Text |           my dear friend, and the explanation of that is custom.~SOCRATES:


Euthydemus
    Part
 23 Intro|         first, the refutation and explanation of false philosophies still


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 24 Intro|      unjust. According to his own explanation, he had learned of the multitude.
 25 Text |           my hopes to do with the explanation which you promised of your
 26 Text |       Cleinias and Dinomache. The explanation is, that all these designs


Gorgias
    Part
 27 Intro|        which was necessary to the explanation of the subject, and begs
 28 Intro|           sayings and doings, the explanation of them is, that he is not
 29 Intro|        two loves. And this is the explanation of Socrates’ peculiarities
 30 Text |  therefore I had to enter into an explanation. And if I show an equal


Laches
    Part
 31 Text |           questioned, and give an explanation about matters of this sort.


Laws
    Book
 32 3    |        you would give us a fuller explanation.~Athenian. I will. Under
 33 9    |           away without giving any explanation or verification of itself?
 34 10   |           of which they demand an explanation, partly making them afraid
 35 10   |        conveyed. This is also the explanation of the fate of those whom
 36 12   |        have of their own; but the explanation of how this is all to be


Lysis
    Part
 37 Intro|          evil. (Symp.)~After this explanation has been received with triumphant
 38 Intro|         no friendship. Some other explanation then has to be devised.


Meno
    Part
 39 Intro|           held to be incapable of explanation. And yet, if there are no
 40 Intro|          real meaning of them, an explanation of the nature and origin


Parmenides
    Part
 41 Intro|           then, without a word of explanation, could Plato assign to them
 42 Intro|     philosophy. Nor would such an explanation afford any satisfactory
 43 Intro|       second remark: viz. that no explanation of the Parmenides can be
 44 Intro|       rather have recourse to the explanation that the ideas are types
 45 Intro|         in our minds furnished an explanation of the infinite variety
 46 Intro|          they could have given no explanation, and which had really no


Phaedo
    Part
 47 Intro|        Well, (1) according to one explanation, because man is a prisoner,
 48 Intro|           him, and he had not the explanation of them which is supplied
 49 Text |      should be satisfied with the explanation given, and not want any
 50 Text |           he would have a similar explanation of my talking to you, which
 51 Text |       further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would


Phaedrus
    Part
 52 Intro|        madness by an etymological explanation (mantike, manike—compare
 53 Text |           I might have a rational explanation that Orithyia was playing


Philebus
    Part
 54 Intro|       Many points require further explanation; e.g. the reference of pleasure
 55 Intro|    certainly given a very partial explanation of the ridiculous.) Having
 56 Intro|          which furnishes the best explanation or gives the most comprehensive
 57 Intro|         they should afford a real explanation of the facts, (2) that they
 58 Intro|     theory supplies a much easier explanation of some virtues than of
 59 Intro|        promote happiness. For the explanation of justice, on the other
 60 Intro|  imaginative faculty, nor give an explanation of phenomena which is in
 61 Intro|    one-sidedness, its paradoxical explanation of several of the virtues.
 62 Text |     whether you would agree in my explanation of this phenomenon.~PROTARCHUS:
 63 Text |          PROTARCHUS: What is your explanation?~SOCRATES: I think that


Protagoras
    Part
 64 Intro|         highly delighted with the explanation of Protagoras. But he has
 65 Intro|        another and more elaborate explanation of the whole passage. The
 66 Intro|         of the whole passage. The explanation is as follows:—~The Lacedaemonians
 67 Intro|          that passage—e.g. in the explanation of good as pleasure—Plato
 68 Intro|     concede); and also (3) in his explanation of the phenomenon that good
 69 Intro|     futility and absurdity of the explanation of (Greek), which is hardly
 70 Text |        you have given a very good explanation of the poem; but I have
 71 Text |        the good’? Is not the real explanation that they are out of proportion


The Republic
    Book
 72 2    |          God, he must devise some explanation of them such as we are seeking:
 73 5    |           give you a satisfactory explanation. ~Proceed. ~I dare say that
 74 6    |        you will only give such an explanation of the good as you have
 75 10   |         be satisfied with half an explanation. ~Proceed. ~Of the painter


The Sophist
    Part
 76 Intro|      logic is also jealous of the explanation of negation as relation,
 77 Intro|         inconsistency between his explanation of the negative and the
 78 Intro|          of ‘All have eaten.’~The explanation of the negative given by
 79 Intro|     probably go back for the true explanation to the influence which the
 80 Intro|           the Sophist, is not his explanation of ‘Not-being’ as difference.
 81 Intro|       pressed to give this fuller explanation, either in the form of a
 82 Intro|       they not also find a nearer explanation in their relation to phenomena?
 83 Intro|           difficult and elaborate explanation. The simplicity of the words
 84 Intro|    different degrees. There is an explanation of abstractions by the phenomena
 85 Text |         the help of the following explanation.~THEAETETUS: What explanation?~
 86 Text |     explanation.~THEAETETUS: What explanation?~STRANGER: Not-being has


The Statesman
    Part
 87 Intro|      which he pretends to find an explanation in his own larger conception (
 88 Intro| philosophers, Plato relegates his explanation of the problem to a transcendental
 89 Text |           king. According to this explanation we must translate the words


The Symposium
    Part
 90 Text |         but, as I was saying, the explanation of it is rather perplexing.
 91 Text |            the oracle requires an explanation.’ ‘I will make my meaning


Theaetetus
    Part
 92 Intro|       opinion, with definition or explanation.’ But all the different
 93 Intro| Theaetetus is delighted with this explanation. But Socrates has no sooner
 94 Intro|      accompanied by definition or explanation. Socrates has had a similar
 95 Intro|            and that definition or explanation begins when they are combined;
 96 Intro|        vowel, of which no further explanation can be given. And how can
 97 Intro|     elements of which there is no explanation. But how can the syllable
 98 Intro|           opinion, accompanied by explanation or definition.’ Explanation
 99 Intro|       explanation or definition.’ Explanation may mean, (1) the reflection
100 Intro|       both in the text and in the explanation, which has to be cleared
101 Intro|           It is obvious that this explanation (supposing the distinction
102 Intro|          he is led to discard the explanation which might nevertheless
103 Intro|         with definite or rational explanation. This Socrates identifies
104 Intro|           discovers a flaw in the explanation. For how can we know a compound
105 Intro|           all of them turn on the explanation of logos. The first account
106 Intro|    observe, that there is in this explanation an element of truth which
107 Intro|          is not truth. The second explanation of logos is the enumeration
108 Intro|       idea. The third is the best explanation,—the possession of a characteristic
109 Intro|           opinion—with or without explanation; nor the expression of thought,
110 Intro|      immediately upon sense, that explanation of human action is deemed
111 Intro|   supposing partial or occasional explanation of mental phenomena to be
112 Intro|        between mind and body, the explanation of the one by the other
113 Text |          begin to see what is the explanation of this perplexity on the
114 Text |        wait a little and hear the explanation, and then you will say so
115 Text |         You have heard the common explanation of the verb ‘to know’?~THEAETETUS:
116 Text |       THEAETETUS: A very rational explanation.~SOCRATES: But when he catches
117 Text |     things which have a reason or explanation are knowable.~SOCRATES:
118 Text |     compounded, have no reason or explanation; you can only name them,
119 Text |         anything without rational explanation, you may say that his mind
120 Text |         but when he adds rational explanation, then, he is perfected in
121 Text |       with definition or rational explanation, is knowledge?~THEAETETUS:
122 Text |       with rational definition or explanation is the most perfect form
123 Text |          the meaning of the term ‘explanation’? I think that we have a
124 Text |         mirror or water. Does not explanation appear to be of this nature?~
125 Text |     anything will also have right explanation; nor will right opinion
126 Text |     hundred planks, adds rational explanation to true opinion, and instead
127 Text |         elements to be a rational explanation of them, and the consideration
128 Text |    SOCRATES: And yet he will have explanation, as well as right opinion,
129 Text |           and this we admit to be explanation.~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
130 Text |         united with definition or explanation, which does not as yet attain
131 Text |    opinion combined with rational explanation? And very likely there may
132 Text |          get at the definition or explanation of it; but while you lay
133 Text |           say of adding reason or explanation to right opinion? If the
134 Text |            nor yet definition and explanation accompanying and added to


Timaeus
    Part
135 Intro|           in the sea. This is the explanation of the shallows which are
136 Intro|           mouth and nostrils. The explanation of this double phenomenon
137 Intro|        creation of the world. The explanation may help to fill up with
138 Intro|       disputed. The most received explanation is that of Martin, who supposes
139 Intro|           45:75:125). But to this explanation of Martin’s it may be objected, (
140 Intro|          him.~Leaving the further explanation of details, which the reader
141 Intro|    oblique motion which gives the explanation of the different lengths
142 Intro|      revolve with the heavens, no explanation is given of the variation
143 Intro|   possible.~Section 7.~In Plato’s explanation of sensation we are struck
144 Intro|           were capable, found the explanation of the equally complex phenomena
145 Intro|           modern chemistry is the explanation of qualitative difference
146 Intro|           not remark that his own explanation did not suit all phenomena;
147 Intro|        phenomena; and the simpler explanation, which assigns to bodies
148 Text |       best to give as probable an explanation as any other—or rather,
149 Text |       kind, which is difficult of explanation and dimly seen. What nature
150 Text |         any tolerable or probable explanation of them. Again, red, when