Dialogue

 1 Intro|      philosophy; the denial of the existence of Not-being, and of the
 2 Intro|          not, and therefore has no existence. At length the difficulty
 3 Intro|      imagine that falsehood had no existence, if reality was denied to
 4 Intro|  alternative: If we once admit the existence of Being and Not-being,
 5 Intro|          argument is asserting the existence of not-being. And this is
 6 Intro|          being ever have come into existence, for nothing comes into
 7 Intro|             for nothing comes into existence except as a whole; nor can
 8 Intro|         themselves. They admit the existence of a mortal living creature,
 9 Intro|    corporeal, or that they have no existence; at this point they begin
10 Intro|            by the term “being” or “existence”?’ And, as they are incapable
11 Intro|             he means to assert the existence of some third thing, different
12 Intro|       opposed to a certain kind of existence which is termed beautiful.
13 Intro|            not only discovered the existence, but also the nature of
14 Intro|          he can no longer deny the existence of not-being, may still
15 Intro|          animals did not come into existence by chance, or the spontaneous
16 Intro|         stages of knowledge and of existence. They are the steps or grades
17 Intro|    Symposium. He does not deny the existence of objects of sense, but
18 Intro|            that the truth of their existence shall be hereafter proved.
19 Intro|         cycle of human thought and existence is complete. It follows
20 Intro|            Being. The struggle for existence is not confined to the animals,
21 Intro|        thought and language had no existence.~Of the great dislike and
22 Intro|        both implies and denies the existence of every other, and that
23 Intro|        with this law, nor does any existence conform to it.’ Wisdom of
24 Intro|            terms Being, Not-being, existence, essence, notion, and the
25 Intro|  spectators of all time and of all existence;’ their works live for ever;
26 Intro|     relative forms of ‘ground’ and existence, substance and accidents,
27 Intro|        them, such as ‘ground’ and ‘existence,’ have hardly any basis
28  Soph|       STRANGER: He who brings into existence something that did not exist
29  Soph|         that which is brought into existence is said to be produced.~
30  Soph|            if anything, has a real existence.~STRANGER: Then we must
31  Soph|         introducing into it either existence or unity or plurality.~THEAETETUS:
32  Soph|     against our will, to admit the existence of not-being.~THEAETETUS:
33  Soph|          things which are, and the existence of things which are not.~
34  Soph|       venture either to deny their existence, or to maintain that they
35  Soph|        slight the effect, has real existence; and I hold that the definition
36  Soph|            to the aborigines about existence.~THEAETETUS: What was that?~
37  Soph|          this view too mind has no existence.~THEAETETUS: How so?~STRANGER:
38  Soph|          could exist, or come into existence anywhere?~THEAETETUS: No.~
39  Soph| not-beautiful anything but this—an existence parted off from a certain
40  Soph|         off from a certain kind of existence, and again from another
41  Soph|          not-beautiful a less real existence?~THEAETETUS: Not at all.~
42  Soph|           be said to have any more existence than the other.~THEAETETUS:
43  Soph|            of the other has a real existence, the parts of this nature
44  Soph|            were saying, as real an existence as any other class? May
45  Soph|           not-being has an assured existence, and a nature of its own?
46  Soph|           to the death against the existence of the image-making and
47  Soph|      action or inaction, or of the existence of existence or non-existence
48  Soph|             or of the existence of existence or non-existence indicated
49  Soph|            say that they come into existence—not having existed previously—