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?