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Sophist – Plato

THEAETETUS: Yes.

imagination are now proved to exist in our minds both as true and false.

STRANGER: Who must be you, and can be no-body else?

THEAETETUS: How so?

THEAETETUS: Unquestionably.

STRANGER: You will know better if you first gain a knowledge of what they are, and in what they STRANGER: And it would be no sentence at all severally differ from one another.

if there were no subject, for, as we proved, a sentence which has no subject is impossible.

THEAETETUS: Give me the knowledge which you would wish me to gain.

THEAETETUS: Quite true.

STRANGER: Are not thought and speech the STRANGER: When other, then, is asserted of you same, with this exception, that what is called as the same, and not-being as being, such a com-thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul bination of nouns and verbs is really and truly with herself?

false discourse.

THEAETETUS: Quite true.

THEAETETUS: Most true.

STRANGER: But the stream of thought which flows STRANGER: And therefore thought, opinion, and through the lips and is audible is called speech?