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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?
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The Complete Plato
- Title
- The Complete Plato
- Author
- Plato
- Date
- ~347 B.C.
- Language
- English
- License
- PD
- Size
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 1612
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Categories
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International