 | Plato - 1866 - 576 páginas
...object of investigation. I am perfe6tly aware of the fact, he replied. Then you also know that they summon to their aid visible forms, and discourse about...water, they are really endeavouring to behold those abstractions which a person can only see with the eye of thought. True. This, then, was the class of... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1888 - 744 páginas
...their thoughts are busy, not with these forms, but with their originals, and though they discourse uot with a view to the particular square and diameter...by sense or imagination, but only by the intellect (Suivoia). Again, speaking of geometry, the Platonic Socrates says : " It is indeed no easy matter... | |
 | Plato - 1888 - 422 páginas
...object of investigation. I am perfectly aware of the fact, he replied. Then you also know that they summon to their aid visible forms, and discourse about...water, they are really endeavouring to behold those abstractions which a person can only see with the eye of thought. en True. This, then, was the class... | |
 | John Ernest Adamson - 1908 - 290 páginas
...and the kind of knowledge he refers to. Speaking of the students of this subject, he says : " They summon to their aid visible forms, and discourse about...water, they are really endeavouring to behold those abstractions which a person can only see with the eye of thought."1 Here we have the advance from the... | |
 | Plato - 1996 - 404 páginas
...square and the absolute diameter, and so on. For while they employ by way of images those figures .ind diagrams aforesaid, which again have their shadows...water, they are really endeavouring to behold those abstractions which a person can only see with the eye of thought. True. This, then, was the class of... | |
 | Plato - 2005 - 436 páginas
...the diameter itself, and so on. For while they employ by way of images those figures and diagrams, which again have their shadows and images in water, they are really 511 endeavoring to behold things themselves, which a person can only see with reasoning. True. This,... | |
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Then you also know that they summon to their aid visible forms, and discourse about them, though their thoughts are busy not with these forms, but with their originals, and though they discourse not with a view to the particular square and diameter which... 