Dialogue

 1 Intro|           predicated of any other thing, how could truth be distinguished
 2 Intro|        The saying or thinking the thing that is not, would be the
 3 Intro|         not, who can say? But one thing we can say—that they went
 4 Intro|      different names for the same thing? But how can there be two
 5 Intro|           existence of some third thing, different from them both,
 6 Intro|     giving many names to the same thing, e.g. white, good, tall,
 7 Intro|      through all things, for each thing is other than all other
 8 Intro|      excepted. And ‘being’ is one thing, and ‘not-being’ includes
 9 Intro|       that there could be no such thing as falsehood, because there
10 Intro|         because there was no such thing as not-being, he may continue
11 Intro|       argue that there is no such thing as the art of image-making
12 Intro|     whether there could be such a thing as an appearance, because
13 Intro|         because there was no such thing as falsehood. At length
14 Intro|           of Plato: How could one thing be or become another? That
15 Intro|          is not, or that the same thing can be affected in the same
16 Intro|          to us that we regard the thing signified by them as absolutely
17  Soph|        about the name, but of the thing to which we both apply the
18  Soph|           understanding about the thing itself in terms of a definition,
19  Soph|           some simple and smaller thing, unless you can suggest
20  Soph|          definition as any larger thing? Shall I say an angler?
21  Soph|       about the definition of the thing itself. One half of all
22  Soph|        the Sophist; there was one thing which appeared to me especially
23  Soph|        would mankind be if such a thing were possible!~SOCRATES:
24  Soph| dialectical net, and there is one thing which he decidedly will
25  Soph|           breadth and depth, each thing receiving also its appropriate
26  Soph|        great deal of this kind of thing in painting, and in all
27  Soph|          doubt of that; for how a thing can appear and seem, and
28  Soph|            or how a man can say a thing which is not true, has always
29  Soph|       something must say some one thing?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
30  Soph|          be attributed some other thing which is?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
31  Soph|         things which are not or a thing which is not without number?~
32  Soph|   something to be some other true thing, or what do you mean?~THEAETETUS:
33  Soph|        Certainly not another true thing, but only a resemblance.~
34  Soph|   accusations so serious. Yet one thing may be said of them without
35  Soph|         offence—~THEAETETUS: What thing?~STRANGER: That they went
36  Soph|       apply two names to the same thing?~THEAETETUS: What will be
37  Soph|     distinguish the name from the thing, implies duality.~THEAETETUS:
38  Soph|      identifies the name with the thing will be compelled to say
39  Soph|        unity, and there be such a thing as an absolute whole, being
40  Soph|        admit that there is such a thing as a mortal animal.~THEAETETUS:
41  Soph|          That would be a dreadful thing to admit, Stranger.~STRANGER:
42  Soph|          that being is some third thing, when we say that rest and
43  Soph|            Here, then, is another thing which we ought to bear in
44  Soph|  predicate many names of the same thing.~THEAETETUS: Give an example.~
45  Soph|         or nothing with any other thing; or some things communicate
46  Soph|           And now tell me another thing.~THEAETETUS: What?~STRANGER:
47  Soph|           What is it?~STRANGER: A thing of which I have already
48  Soph| compelling them to admit that one thing mingles with another.~THEAETETUS:
49  Soph|      exists, there can be no such thing as falsehood. And, with
50  Soph|        sentence to you in which a thing and an action are combined,
51  Soph|         saying, in regard to each thing or person, there is much
52  Soph|    asserted that there is no such thing as an image or idol or appearance,
53  Soph|          can there ever be such a thing as falsehood.~THEAETETUS:
54  Soph|         go in pairs; there is the thing, with which the art of making
55  Soph|       which the art of making the thing is concerned, and the image,