The Republic · ¶4904

Dialectic, the most difficult branch of philosophy, 6. 498; objects of, ib. 511; 7. 537 D; proceeds by a double method, 6. 511; compared to sight, 7. 532 A; capable of attaining to the idea of good, ibid.; gives firmness to hypotheses, ib. 533; the coping stone of the sciences, ib. 534 [cp. Phil. 57]; must be studied by the rulers, ib. 537; dangers of the study, ibid.; years to be spent in, ib. 539; distinguished from eristic, ib. D (cp. 5. 454 A; 6. 499 A): —the dialectician has a conception of essence, 7. 534 [cp. Phaedo 75 D].

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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