The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |        will discover my facetious contradiction, or whether I shall be able


Charmides
   Part
 2 Text |       things involves an absolute contradiction; and in other cases, as


Euthydemus
   Part
 3 Intro|    Philebus; the true doctrine of contradiction is taught, and the fallacy
 4 Intro|         there is no such thing as contradiction. When you and I describe
 5 Intro|       another, how can there be a contradiction?’ Ctesippus is unable to
 6 Intro|    already heard of the denial of contradiction, and would like to be informed
 7 Intro|       serious attention; in which contradiction itself was denied, and,
 8 Text |       must not confound abuse and contradiction, O illustrious Dionysodorus;
 9 Text |           quite different things.~Contradiction! said Dionysodorus; why,
10 Text |          say nothing—is there any contradiction? How can he who speaks contradict


Euthyphro
   Part
11 Intro|         Here then appears to be a contradiction,—Euthyphro has been giving


Gorgias
   Part
12 Intro|       Socrates to detect him in a contradiction. Like Protagoras, he is
13 Intro|          more fallacious than the contradiction which he pretends to have
14 Text |           admission there arose a contradiction—the thing which you dearly


Ion
   Part
15 Intro|         of Ion, who asks how this contradiction is to be solved. The solution


Laches
   Part
16 Intro|        than the good. How is this contradiction to be solved? Socrates and
17 Text |          SOCRATES: And that is in contradiction with our present view?~NICIAS:


Laws
   Book
18 7    |          I assert without fear of contradiction that gymnastic and horsemanship
19 9    |           done involuntarily is a contradiction; wherefore he who maintains


Meno
   Part
20 Text |          you will involve me in a contradiction.~MENO: Indeed, Socrates,
21 Text |           as you may remark, is a contradiction of the other.~MENO: Clearly.~


Parmenides
   Part
22 Intro|       like and unlike, which is a contradiction; and each division of your
23 Intro|     subjective.’ ‘That would be a contradiction.’ ‘True; and therefore any
24 Intro|      general notions. There is no contradiction in material things partaking
25 Intro|        many; neither is there any contradiction in the ideas of one and
26 Intro|            in themselves. But the contradiction arises when we attempt to
27 Intro| Heracleitus, may have seen that a contradiction in terms is sometimes the
28 Intro|          this without involving a contradiction. But is the contradiction
29 Intro|         contradiction. But is the contradiction also the final conclusion?
30 Intro|  inherence be in a part, the same contradiction follows: smallness will
31 Intro|     suddenness’ is based upon the contradiction which is involved in supposing
32 Intro|       unintelligible, e.g. in the contradiction which is elicited out of
33 Intro|     Socrates implies: There is no contradiction in the concrete, but in
34 Intro|         more palpable will be the contradiction. For just as nothing can
35 Intro|      remodelled. The negation and contradiction which are involved in the
36 Intro|           the Republic the law of contradiction and the unity of knowledge


Phaedo
   Part
37 Intro|      appeared to him to contain a contradiction. For how can one be divided
38 Text |       there would be a ridiculous contradiction in men studying to live
39 Text |       consider them, are really a contradiction.~How so?~Well, he said,
40 Text |          which might seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the


Philebus
   Part
41 Intro|              Zeno illustrated the contradiction by well-known examples taken
42 Intro|           by us. Our sense of the contradiction, like Plato’s, only begins
43 Intro|        philosophy; and the law of contradiction, which is affirmed by logicians
44 Intro|          idea seems to such men a contradiction. They do not desire to bring
45 Text |          and never has been, is a contradiction; do you see?~PROTARCHUS:


Protagoras
   Part
46 Intro|      which he professes to find a contradiction. First the poet says,~‘Hard
47 Text |           true.~But if there is a contradiction, can the composition be
48 Text |       replied.~And is there not a contradiction? he asked. Reflect.~Well,
49 Text |          opinion that there is no contradiction in the words of Simonides.
50 Text |         Would not this be in flat contradiction to the admission which has


The Republic
   Book
51 2    |        spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other? ~True. ~He
52 4    |           therefore whenever this contradiction occurs in things apparently
53 5    |           the power of the art of contradiction! ~Why do you say so? ~Because
54 7    |            but when there is some contradiction always present, and one
55 7    |         of the science is in flat contradiction to the ordinary language
56 10   |          there occurs an apparent contradiction? ~True. ~But were we not
57 10   |         we not saying that such a contradiction is impossible-the same faculty


The Sophist
   Part
58 Intro|   Theaetetus does (Theaet.), is a contradiction in terms. The fallacy to
59 Intro|        the validity of the law of contradiction. Thirdly, he seems to confuse
60 Intro|        take away the principle of contradiction. Plato, as far as we know,
61 Intro|     negative and the principle of contradiction. Neither the Platonic notion
62 Intro|        all touch the principle of contradiction. For what is asserted about
63 Intro|  interferes with the principle of contradiction employed in the concrete.
64 Intro|         not eaten’ any the less a contradiction of ‘All have eaten.’~The
65 Intro|            without falling into a contradiction. You observe how unwilling
66 Intro|        part of itself. The law of contradiction is as clearly laid down
67 Intro|       been accustomed to regard a contradiction in terms as the end of strife;
68 Intro|           strife; to be told that contradiction is the life and mainspring
69 Intro|         we analyze them involve a contradiction, such as ‘beginning’ or ‘
70 Intro|        divine and human nature, a contradiction appears to be unavoidable.
71 Text |           avoid being caught in a contradiction? Indeed, Theaetetus, the
72 Text |        art without falling into a contradiction.~THEAETETUS: How do you
73 Text |          who is sceptical of this contradiction, must think how he can find


The Symposium
   Part
74 Intro|       Sparta there is an apparent contradiction about them. For at times
75 Intro|    burning intensity of love is a contradiction in nature, which may have


Theaetetus
   Part
76 Intro|           that true opinion was a contradiction in terms.~Assuming the distinction