Charmides
   Part
 1 Text |           discover their truth or falsehood; for they are a kind of
 2 Text |       with him about the truth or falsehood of the definition.~I entirely


Cratylus
   Part
 3 Intro|     distinction between truth and falsehood. Hermogenes is very ready
 4 Intro|           deny the possibility of falsehood. He is inclined to derive
 5 Intro|        Cratylus the doctrine that falsehood can neither be spoken, nor
 6 Intro|         supposes him to mean that falsehood is impossible, to which
 7 Intro|        sophistical argument, that falsehood is saying that which is
 8 Intro|            The question, ‘whether falsehood is impossible,’ which Socrates
 9 Text |          And is not the part of a falsehood also a falsehood?~HERMOGENES:
10 Text |        part of a falsehood also a falsehood?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
11 Text |           among the Gods, whereas falsehood dwells among men below,
12 Text |     aletheia (truth) and pseudos (falsehood) and on (being), not forgetting
13 Text |     motion of existence; pseudos (falsehood) is the opposite of motion;
14 Text |          Are you maintaining that falsehood is impossible? For if this
15 Text |           say nothing? For is not falsehood saying the thing which is
16 Text |       philosophers who think that falsehood may be spoken but not said?~
17 Text |          wrong assignment of them falsehood. Now if there be such a


Euthydemus
   Part
18 Intro|        thing as error, ignorance, falsehood? Then what are they professing
19 Text |         there is no such thing as falsehood; a man must either say what
20 Text |         if, as you say, to tell a falsehood is impossible?~Very true,
21 Text |          question: if there be no falsehood or false opinion or ignorance,


Gorgias
   Part
22 Intro|        dissent from the folly and falsehood of the many. At the same
23 Intro|         in which during many ages falsehood has been accumulating, and
24 Intro|            truth out of error and falsehood. This is what we mean by
25 Text |        and he is all crooked with falsehood and imposture, and has no


Laws
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26 3    |           to suspect another of a falsehood, as men do now; but what
27 5    |       trusted who loves voluntary falsehood, and he who loves involuntary
28 5    |          he who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool. Neither condition
29 11   |           and the same class with falsehood and deceit, concerning which
30 11   |       next degree, he who tells a falsehood in the presence of his superiors.
31 11   | adulteration in the agora tells a falsehood, and deceives, and when
32 12   |         an honourable maiden, and falsehood is naturally repugnant to


Phaedrus
   Part
33 Intro|       without regard to truth and falsehood, attributing to Him every


Philebus
   Part
34 Intro|          opinion, and others with falsehood and ignorance. Let us endeavour
35 Intro|       There is no more doubt that falsehood is wrong than that a stone
36 Text |       opinion admits of truth and falsehood, and hence becomes not merely
37 Text |         all of us associated with falsehood and ignorance?~PROTARCHUS:


The Republic
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38 2    |            not pure unadulterated falsehood. Am I not right? ~Perfectly
39 2    |      about ancient times, we make falsehood as much like truth as we
40 2    |           absolutely incapable of falsehood? ~Yes. ~Then is God perfectly
41 3    |        will when he gets rid of a falsehood and learns better, against
42 4    |           should not be telling a falsehood? ~Most certainly not. ~May
43 5    |       find a considerable dose of falsehood and deceit necessary for
44 6    |          receive into their minds falsehood, which is their detestation,
45 6    |          of wisdom and a lover of falsehood? ~Never. ~The true lover
46 7    |        lame which hates voluntary falsehood and is extremely indignant
47 7    |         is patient of involuntary falsehood, and does not mind wallowing


The Sophist
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48 Intro|       ideas, was making truth and falsehood equally impossible. It has
49 Intro| possibility of false opinion; for falsehood is that which is not, and
50 Intro|           of Plato’s in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.~
51 Intro|          which could imagine that falsehood had no existence, if reality
52 Intro|       truth be distinguished from falsehood? The Eleatic philosopher
53 Intro|           and their conception of falsehood was really impaired and
54 Intro|   Not-being, and therefore not to falsehood, which is the image or expression
55 Intro|          expression of Not-being. Falsehood is wholly false; and to
56 Intro|       false; and to speak of true falsehood, as Theaetetus does (Theaet.),
57 Intro|  Euthydemus. It is a confusion of falsehood and negation, from which
58 Intro|       forming a general notion of falsehood, the mind of the Greek thinker
59 Intro|         the popular definition of falsehood or error. If we were met
60 Intro|      Thirdly, he seems to confuse falsehood with negation. Nor is he
61 Intro|         to identify negation with falsehood, or is unable to distinguish
62 Intro|      admitting the possibility of falsehood. To the Parmenides, the
63 Intro|     admitted, no one can speak of falsehood, or false opinion, or imitation,
64 Intro|         could be no such thing as falsehood, because there was no such
65 Intro|        there was no such thing as falsehood. At length falsehood has
66 Intro|           as falsehood. At length falsehood has been discovered by us
67 Intro|     distinction between truth and falsehood, between the Sophist and
68 Text |         any one say or think that falsehood really exists, and avoid
69 Text |        STRANGER: He who says that falsehood exists has the audacity
70 Text |     implied in the possibility of falsehood. But, my boy, in the days
71 Text |           sense, if any degree of falsehood is to be possible.~STRANGER:
72 Text |     STRANGER: And here, again, is falsehood?~THEAETETUS: Falsehood—yes.~
73 Text |         is falsehood?~THEAETETUS: Falsehood—yes.~STRANGER: And in like
74 Text |        hazard the assertion, that falsehood exists in opinion and in
75 Text |          or to say what is not—is falsehood, which thus arises in the
76 Text |      STRANGER: And where there is falsehood surely there must be deceit.~
77 Text |           the very possibility of falsehood; no one, he argued, either
78 Text |       either conceived or uttered falsehood, inasmuch as not-being did
79 Text |           can be no such thing as falsehood. And, with the view of meeting
80 Text |         them, may thus prove that falsehood exists; and therein we will
81 Text |           have still to show that falsehood exists in the sphere of
82 Text |         should have an element of falsehood as well as of truth?~THEAETETUS:
83 Text |           ever be such a thing as falsehood.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
84 Text |         if it could be shown that falsehood is a reality and belongs


The Symposium
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85 Text |        without regard to truth or falsehood—that was no matter; for
86 Text |         you, Socrates, expose the falsehood). Well, he and I were alone


Theaetetus
   Part
87 Intro|    counter-acts of dishonesty and falsehood, and become warped and distorted;
88 Intro|       that this must be ‘the true falsehood,’ when a man puts good for
89 Intro|      paradoxical expression ‘true falsehood,’ but passes on. The new
90 Intro|          think amiss; and this is falsehood and ignorance. Error, then,
91 Text |          be wrong for me to admit falsehood, or to stifle the truth.
92 Text |         SOCRATES: And is truth or falsehood to be determined by duration
93 Text |           mark—and this is called falsehood.~THEAETETUS: Yes; it is