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.