Dialogue

 1 Repub|      ignorance of necessity to not-being, for that intermediate between
 2 Repub| intermediate between being and not-being there has to be discovered
 3 Repub| something else. Well, then, is not-being the subject-matter of opinion?
 4 Repub|        an opinion at all about not-being? Reflect: when a man has
 5 Repub|     some one thing? ~Yes. ~And not-being is not one thing, but, properly
 6 Repub|  speaking, nothing? ~True. ~Of not-being, ignorance was assumed to
 7 Repub|      either with being or with not-being? ~Not with either. ~And
 8 Repub|        pure being and absolute not-being; and that the corresponding
 9 Repub|        the nature of being and not-being, and cannot rightly be termed
10 Repub|       mind, either as being or not-being, or both, or neither. ~Then
11 Repub|   place than between being and not-being? For they are clearly not
12 Repub|      darkness or negation than not-being, or more full of light and
13 Repub|    between pure being and pure not-being? ~We have. ~Yes; and we