Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |             have to convert the more abstract Greek into the more concrete
  2 PreS |           whether outward objects or abstract ideas, are relegated to
  3 Intro|        replies by again dividing the abstract from the concrete, and asks
  4 Intro|             of the difficulty of the abstract and concrete, and one of
  5 Intro|             the enquiry becomes more abstract he is superseded by Critias (
  6 Intro|        Euthydemus. The opposition of abstract and particular knowledge


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|          that justice is fire in the abstract, or heat in the abstract;
  8 Intro|             abstract, or heat in the abstract; which is not very intelligible.
  9 Intro|            calls the second world of abstract terms into existence, as
 10 Intro|         again, we may frame a single abstract notion of language of which
 11 Intro|       various phenomena. There is no abstract language ‘in rerum natura,’
 12 Intro|            any more than there is an abstract tree, but only languages
 13 Intro|     philology, unlike that imaginary abstract unity of which we were just
 14 Intro|           they outrun experience and abstract the mind from the observation
 15 Intro|           for they imply a growth of abstract ideas which never existed
 16 Intro|              at a time when in their abstract form they had never entered
 17 Intro|              to objects of sense and abstract ideas as well as to men
 18 Text |       opinion, he says, ‘Fire in the abstract’; but this is not very intelligible.
 19 Text |           says, ‘No, not fire in the abstract, but the abstraction of


Euthydemus
    Part
 20 Intro|              degree, when applied to abstract notions, were not understood;


Gorgias
    Part
 21 Intro|         getting confused between the abstract notions of better, superior,
 22 Intro|           Plato is not asserting any abstract right or duty of toleration,
 23 Intro|           Plato is not affirming any abstract right of this nature: but
 24 Intro|           words of Socrates are more abstract than the words of Christ,
 25 Intro|          previously set forth in the abstract are represented in a picture: (
 26 Intro|              with that of mythology; abstract ideas are transformed into
 27 Intro|             his age to pass from the abstract to the concrete, from poetry
 28 Intro|             range and soaring to the abstract and universal. Even in the


Laws
    Book
 29 4    |            Athenian. Whether, in the abstract, words are to be many or
 30 9    |       although a person knows in the abstract that this is true, yet if


Meno
    Part
 31 Intro|             of opinion that the more abstract or dialectical definition
 32 Intro|            Republic. Because men had abstract ideas in a previous state,
 33 Intro|             and impersonal. They are abstract terms: they are also the
 34 Intro|           nature. The mind naked and abstract has no other certainty but
 35 Intro|            in another way and say of abstract or general ideas, that the
 36 Intro|           reduced to a figment, more abstract and narrow than Plato’s
 37 Intro|          part from the whole, or the abstract from the concrete, or theory


Parmenides
    Part
 38 Intro|              idea of likeness in the abstract, which is the contradictory
 39 Intro|   contradictory of unlikeness in the abstract, by participation in either
 40 Intro|        though like and unlike in the abstract are irreconcilable. Nor
 41 Intro|              rest and motion, in the abstract, are capable either of admixture
 42 Intro|                do you think that the abstract ideas of likeness, unity,
 43 Intro|          ideas.’ ‘And would you make abstract ideas of the just, the beautiful,
 44 Intro|              of greatness, which you abstract.’ ‘That is quite true.’ ‘
 45 Intro|            difficulty of maintaining abstract ideas.’ ‘What difficulty?’ ‘
 46 Intro|           the idea of a slave in the abstract is relative to the idea
 47 Intro|              idea of a master in the abstract; this correspondence of
 48 Intro|           crude idea of Being in the abstract, he was about to proceed
 49 Intro|            both admit, the denial of abstract ideas is the destruction
 50 Intro|        trivial; their true nature as abstract terms is perfectly understood
 51 Intro|       separate from being: will this abstract one be one or many? You
 52 Intro|           parts than one; and so the abstract one broken up into parts
 53 Intro|             the concrete, but in the abstract; and the more abstract the
 54 Intro|           the abstract; and the more abstract the idea, the more palpable
 55 Intro|             we be persuaded that any abstract idea is identical with its
 56 Intro|       accuracy. We doubt whether any abstract notion could stand the searching
 57 Text |          suggested, some one were to abstract simple notions of like,
 58 Text |            idea of mastership in the abstract, which is relative to the
 59 Text |           the idea of slavery in the abstract. These natures have nothing
 60 Text |          many?~True.~But now, let us abstract the one which, as we say,
 61 Text |           say, it partakes—will this abstract one be one only or many?~
 62 Text |              true.~And if we were to abstract from them in idea the very


Phaedo
    Part
 63 Intro|          fears to a conception of an abstract soul which is the impersonation
 64 Intro|           question, ‘Whence come our abstract ideas?’ he could only answer
 65 Intro|              which to us appear only abstract terms,—these are to be explained


Phaedrus
    Part
 66 Intro|           mission was to realize the abstract; in that, all good and truth,
 67 Intro|              the intense power which abstract ideas exercised over the
 68 Intro|              and the like, which are abstract ideas only, and which are
 69 Intro|              argument should be too ‘abstract and barren of illustrations.’ (
 70 Intro|              had entered on the more abstract speculations of the Sophist
 71 Intro|        become extravagant, eclectic, abstract, devoid of any real content.
 72 Text |       previous argument has been too abstract and wanting in illustrations.~
 73 Text |          whom he was speaking in the abstract actually before him, and


Philebus
    Part
 74 Intro| philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great advances have
 75 Intro|              when he was absorbed in abstract ideas, we can hardly be
 76 Intro|           tell the relation in which abstract ideas stand to one another,
 77 Intro|             from the concrete to the abstract conception of the Ideas
 78 Intro|          mode of regarding them; the abstract idea of the one is compared
 79 Intro|           unchangeable, and then the abstract idea of pleasure will be
 80 Intro|            element of both. The most abstract kinds of knowledge are inseparable
 81 Intro|             may also become a purely abstract science, when separated
 82 Intro|         numbers, and is due to their abstract nature;—although we admit
 83 Intro|              of goods, from the more abstract to the less abstract; from
 84 Intro|            more abstract to the less abstract; from the subjective to
 85 Intro|       conception of good against the abstract practical good of the Cynics,
 86 Intro|           good of the Cynics, or the abstract intellectual good of the
 87 Intro|             process of creating; the abstract universals of which they
 88 Intro|             application of number to abstract unities (e.g.‘man,’ ‘good’)
 89 Intro|            or to their nature in the abstract—as they are regarded popularly
 90 Intro|             feel the advantage of an abstract principle wide enough and
 91 Intro|             any quality which we can abstract from these’—what then? After
 92 Intro|              of ethics, in being too abstract. For there is the same difficulty
 93 Intro|              higher point of view of abstract ideas: or compare the simple


The Republic
    Book
 94 7    |             the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against
 95 7    |          Until the person is able to abstract and define rationally the


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 96 Pre  |       political economy and gives an abstract form to some of its principal


The Sophist
    Part
 97 Intro|            seriously affected by the abstract idea of necessity; or though
 98 Intro|             like Bacon, to criticize abstract notions, might not extend
 99 Intro|              irreconcilable with the abstract Pantheism of the Eleatics.
100 Intro|             only relates to our most abstract notions, and in no way interferes
101 Intro|        becoming,’ ‘the finite,’ ‘the abstract,’ in which the negative
102 Intro|        classes of Not-being with the abstract notion. As the Pre-Socratic
103 Intro|          statements of opinion, with abstract principles. But objects
104 Intro|        opinion must be verified; the abstract principles must be filled
105 Intro|        Sophist Plato begins with the abstract and goes on to the concrete,
106 Intro|             another, demanded a more abstract and perfect conception,
107 Intro|            of knowledge more or less abstract were gradually developed.
108 Intro|  understanding is strong in a single abstract principle and with this
109 Intro|            mind from the dominion of abstract ideas. We acknowledge his
110 Intro|       preferring the concrete to the abstract, in setting actuality before
111 Intro|           before Christ,—the want of abstract ideas. Nor must we forget
112 Intro|            an appeal to one-sided or abstract principles. In this age
113 Intro|           mankind regard only in the abstract. There is much to be said
114 Text |            being, for to speak of an abstract something naked and isolated


The Statesman
    Part
115 Intro|         natural to man: truth in the abstract is hardly won, and only
116 Text |           other kindred arts, merely abstract knowledge, wholly separated


The Symposium
    Part
117 Intro|           harmony and rhythm. In the abstract, all is simple, and we are
118 Intro|              a confusion between the abstract ideas of good and beauty,
119 Intro|          through the concrete to the abstract, and, by different paths


Theaetetus
    Part
120 Intro|       expression of knowledge in the abstract. Yet at length he begins
121 Intro|             more and more vacant and abstract, and not only the Platonic
122 Intro|            me, as the women do, if I abstract your first-born; for I am
123 Intro|           the concrete or man in the abstract, any man or some men, ‘quod
124 Intro|              been made when the most abstract notions, such as Being and
125 Intro|             which if expressed in an abstract form would not be realized
126 Intro|             class word, and the more abstract the notion becomes, the
127 Intro|           the individual mind in the abstract, as distinct from the mind
128 Intro|          like Metaphysic, argue from abstract notions or from internal
129 Intro|            in which images pass into abstract notions or are intermingled
130 Intro|            of right and wrong in the abstract, but of right and wrong
131 Text |           nature of knowledge in the abstract. Am I not right?~THEAETETUS:
132 Text |             I will ask you. And if I abstract and expose your first-born,
133 Text |            you do not understand the abstract expression. Then I will
134 Text |             but five or seven in the abstract, which, as we say, are recorded
135 Text |          SOCRATES: And he can reckon abstract numbers in his head, or


Timaeus
    Part
136 Intro|            mind which was exerted by abstract ideas, they were also capable
137 Intro|               We begin with the most abstract, and proceed from the abstract
138 Intro|       abstract, and proceed from the abstract to the concrete. We are
139 Intro|            one to the other. But the abstract is a vacant form to us until
140 Intro|              described are so purely abstract as the English word ‘space’
141 Intro|              space or matter the two abstract ideas of weight and extension,
142 Intro|       qualities—between Being in the abstract and Nothing. Yet we are
143 Text |            power to do this, were to abstract particles of fire and put