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Sophist – Plato

STRANGER: Alas, Theaetetus, methinks that we STRANGER: To be sure I will, and I will remind are now only beginning to see the real difficulty you of them, by putting the same questions to of the enquiry into the nature of it.

you which I did to them, and then we shall get on.

THEAETETUS: What do you mean?

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: O my friend, do you not see that nothing can exceed our ignorance, and yet we STRANGER: Would you not say that rest and fancy that we are saying something good?

motion are in the most entire opposition to one another?

THEAETETUS: I certainly thought that we were; and I do not at all understand how we never THEAETETUS: Of course.

found out our desperate case.

STRANGER: And yet you would say that both STRANGER: Reflect: after having made these and either of them equally are?

admissions, may we not be justly asked the same questions which we ourselves were asking of THEAETETUS: I should.

those who said that all was hot and cold?

STRANGER: And when you admit that both or THEAETETUS: What were they? Will you recall either of them are, do you mean to say that both them to my mind?

or either of them are in motion?