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Sophist – Plato

THEAETETUS: In what a strange complication THEAETETUS: There is nothing else to be said.

of being and not-being we are involved!

STRANGER: Again, false opinion is that form of STRANGER: Strange! I should think so. See how, opinion which thinks the opposite of the truth:—

by his reciprocation of opposites, the many-You would assent?

headed Sophist has compelled us, quite against our will, to admit the existence of not-being.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

THEAETETUS: Yes, indeed, I see.

STRANGER: You mean to say that false opinion thinks what is not?

STRANGER: The difficulty is how to define his art without falling into a contradiction.

THEAETETUS: Of course.

THEAETETUS: How do you mean? And where STRANGER: Does false opinion think that things does the danger lie?

which are not are not, or that in a certain sense they are?

STRANGER: When we say that he deceives us with an illusion, and that his art is illusory, do THEAETETUS: Things that are not must be imag-we mean that our soul is led by his art to think ined to exist in a certain sense, if any degree of falsely, or what do we mean?

falsehood is to be possible.