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Sophist – Plato

STRANGER: A sentence must and cannot help STRANGER: ‘Theaetetus sits’—not a very long having a subject.

sentence.

THEAETETUS: True.

THEAETETUS: Not very.

STRANGER: And must be of a certain quality.

STRANGER: Of whom does the sentence speak, and who is the subject? that is what you have to THEAETETUS: Certainly.

tell.

STRANGER: And now let us mind what we are THEAETETUS: Of me; I am the subject.

about.

STRANGER: Or this sentence, again—

THEAETETUS: We must do so.

THEAETETUS: What sentence?

STRANGER: I will repeat a sentence to you in which a thing and an action are combined, by STRANGER: ‘Theaetetus, with whom I am now the help of a noun and a verb; and you shall tell speaking, is flying.’

me of whom the sentence speaks.

THEAETETUS: That also is a sentence which will THEAETETUS: I will, to the best of my power.

be admitted by every one to speak of me, and to apply to me.