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Sophist – Plato

THEAETETUS: Possibly.

be two names of the same class?

STRANGER: But if they are identical, then again THEAETETUS: Very likely.

in saying that motion and rest have being, we should also be saying that they are the same.

STRANGER: But you would agree, if I am not mistaken, that existences are relative as well as absolute?

THEAETETUS: Which surely cannot be.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: Then being and the same cannot be one.

STRANGER: And the other is always relative to other?

THEAETETUS: Scarcely.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Then we may suppose the same to be a fourth class, which is now to be added to STRANGER: But this would not be the case un-the three others.

less being and the other entirely differed; for, if the other, like being, were absolute as well as THEAETETUS: Quite true.

relative, then there would have been a kind of other which was not other than other. And now STRANGER: And shall we call the other a fifth we find that what is other must of necessity be class? Or should we consider being and other to what it is in relation to some other.