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Meno
No, for I am not yet able, Socrates, to follow your line of search, and find a single virtue common to all, as one can in other cases.Socrates
And no wonder; but I will make an effort, so far as I can, to help us onward. You understand, of course, that this principle of mine applies to everything: if someone asked you the question I put to you just now: What is figure, Meno? and you replied: Roundness; and then he said, as I did: Is roundness figure or a figure? I suppose you would answer: A figure.Meno
Certainly.
No, for I am not yet able, Socrates, to follow your line of search, and find a single virtue common to all, as one can in other cases.Socrates
And no wonder; but I will make an effort, so far as I can, to help us onward. You understand, of course, that this principle of mine applies to everything: if someone asked you the question I put to you just now: What is figure, Meno? and you replied: Roundness; and then he said, as I did: Is roundness figure or a figure? I suppose you would answer: A figure.Meno
Certainly.