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we can at least say that Plato hints at such an interpreation in introducing some remarks converning logical definition. He says speaking of his own utterances as if they were so mad that he cannot positively say what he did mean a Socrates. For my part it seems to use that while the rest was playfully said for the sake of the play itself yet every one of these chance utterances was for the sake of two ideas if anyone could receive by as a power over them it would not be thankless. Phaedo. What are they? Socrates first to bring the multitudinously scattered into one idea by co-seeing I suspect that [foreign text] was a work on Socrates's invention since Plato and [Xenophon?] are the earliest authorities for it in L.x S. them so that he who defines each thing may make it plain about what he wishes to teach. For example what was just said about love was difinitive of what love is whether it was well said or not. At any rate by this means the meaning was enabled to express itself unmistakably and self-consistently. Phaedo. And what was the other idea you were speaking of Socrates? Socrates. Again into species to be able to