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Sophist – Plato

THEAETETUS: That is the true state of the case.

can we say?

STRANGER: Then we must admit the other as THEAETETUS: It is so.

the fifth of our selected classes.

STRANGER: And therefore is not rest.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

THEAETETUS: Certainly not.

STRANGER: And the fifth class pervades all classes, for they all differ from one another, not STRANGER: And yet is, because partaking of by reason of their own nature, but because they being.

partake of the idea of the other.

THEAETETUS: True.

THEAETETUS: Quite true.

STRANGER: Again, motion is other than the STRANGER: Then let us now put the case with same?

reference to each of the five.

THEAETETUS: Just so.

THEAETETUS: How?

STRANGER: And is therefore not the same.

STRANGER: First there is motion, which we affirm to be absolutely ‘other’than rest: what else THEAETETUS: It is not.