Dialogue

 1 Intro|      imaginary impersonation of false opinion. Yet he denies the
 2 Intro|       denies the possibility of false opinion; for falsehood is
 3 Intro|       that a proposition may be false as well as true. The Sophist,
 4 Intro|  Not-being. Falsehood is wholly false; and to speak of true falsehood,
 5 Intro|      proved by experience to be false,’ and from such examples
 6 Intro|       one is true and the other false. But, before making this
 7 Intro|    not-honourable’ is neither a false nor an unmeaning proposition.
 8 Intro|  particulars of sense under the false and apparent, so Plato appears
 9 Intro|         nature of knowledge and false opinion. But the nature
10 Intro|      opinion. But the nature of false opinion seemed impenetrable;
11 Intro|      can speak of falsehood, or false opinion, or imitation, without
12 Intro|  hypotheses are thus seen to be false. The third (3) remains,
13 Intro|       though they were. Here is false discourse in the shortest
14 Intro|      proved to be both true and false. For thought is only the
15 Intro|       speech, admit of true and false. And we have discovered
16 Intro|          And we have discovered false opinion, which is an encouraging
17 Intro|        the most inflated with a false meaning. They have been
18  Soph|       be said.~STRANGER: Again, false opinion is that form of
19  Soph|  STRANGER: You mean to say that false opinion thinks what is not?~
20  Soph|       Of course.~STRANGER: Does false opinion think that things
21  Soph|          STRANGER: And does not false opinion also think that
22  Soph| STRANGER: And in like manner, a false proposition will be deemed
23  Soph|         no other way in which a false proposition can arise.~STRANGER:
24  Soph|         for him in the class of false workers and magicians, you
25  Soph|        no one when he speaks of false words, or false opinion,
26  Soph|       speaks of false words, or false opinion, or idols, or images,
27  Soph|      not-being has a part, then false opinion and false speech
28  Soph|          then false opinion and false speech are possible, for
29  Soph|        and neither of them ever false.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
30  Soph|       The one, as I imagine, is false, and the other true.~STRANGER:
31  Soph|          Yes.~STRANGER: And the false says what is other than
32  Soph|       verbs is really and truly false discourse.~THEAETETUS: Most
33  Soph|      our minds both as true and false.~THEAETETUS: How so?~STRANGER:
34  Soph|       that language is true and false, and that thought is the
35  Soph|        you perceive, then, that false opinion and speech have
36  Soph|      there has been shown to be false speech and false opinion,
37  Soph|    shown to be false speech and false opinion, there may be imitations