Sophist – Plato
STRANGER: We agreed that every sentence must STRANGER: And therefore speaks of things necessarily have a certain quality.
which are not as if they were?
THEAETETUS: Yes.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: And what is the quality of each of STRANGER: And say that things are real of you these two sentences?
which are not; for, as we were saying, in regard to each thing or person, there is much that is THEAETETUS: The one, as I imagine, is false, and much that is not.
and the other true.
THEAETETUS: Quite true.
STRANGER: The true says what is true about you?
STRANGER: The second of the two sentences which related to you was first of all an example of the THEAETETUS: Yes.
shortest form consistent with our definition.
STRANGER: And the false says what is other than THEAETETUS: Yes, this was implied in recent true?
admission.
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: And, in the second place, it related to a subject?