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?