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that is not. THEAETETUS: Quite true. STRANGER: The second of the two sentences which related to you was first of all an example of the shortest form consistent with our definition. THEAETETUS: Yes, this was implied in recent admission. STRANGER: And, in the second place, it related to a subject? THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: Who must be you, and can be nobody else? THEAETETUS: Unquestionably. STRANGER: And it would be no sentence at all if there were no subject, for, as we proved, a sentence which has no subject is impossible. THEAETETUS: Quite true. STRANGER: When other, then, is asserted of you as the same, and not- being as being, such a combination of nouns and verbs is really and truly false discourse. THEAETETUS: Most true. STRANGER: And therefore thought, opinion, and imagination are now proved to exist in our minds both as true and false. THEAETETUS: How so? STRANGER: You will know better if you first gain a knowledge of what they are, and in what they severally differ from one another. THEAETETUS: Give me the knowledge which you would wish me to gain. STRANGER: Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself? THEAETETUS: Quite true. STRANGER: But the stream of thought which flows through the lips and is audible is called speech? THEAETETUS: True. STRANGER: And we know that there exists in speech… THEAETETUS: What exists? 795