Dialogue

 1 Intro|          abstractions, if we may speak in the metaphorical language
 2 Intro|          is wholly false; and to speak of true falsehood, as Theaetetus
 3 Intro|         winnowing? And they also speak of carding, spinning, and
 4 Intro|         not admitted, no one can speak of falsehood, or false opinion,
 5 Intro|         recently, Sicilian muses speak of a one and many which
 6 Intro|      adopt a gentler strain, and speak of alternation only. Whether
 7 Intro|          part of mankind, we may speak of it as due to the imperfection
 8  Soph|       profess, not that he could speak or dispute, but that he
 9  Soph|         he has.~STRANGER: Do you speak advisedly, or are you carried
10  Soph|         speaking of something we speak of being, for to speak of
11  Soph|        we speak of being, for to speak of an abstract something
12  Soph|        says ‘not-being’ does not speak at all.~THEAETETUS: The
13  Soph|        mean? Do not be afraid to speak.~STRANGER: To that which
14  Soph|        indeed?~STRANGER: When we speak of things which are not,
15  Soph|    THEAETETUS: What do you mean? Speak more clearly.~STRANGER:
16  Soph|         singular verb, did I not speak of not-being as one?~THEAETETUS:
17  Soph| endeavour with all your might to speak of not-being in a right
18  Soph|        some one or other who can speak of not-being without number,
19  Soph|         these objects, which you speak of as many, and yet call
20  Soph|          what you mean, when you speak of being; for there can
21  Soph|       place among beings, cannot speak either of essence or generation
22  Soph|        proceed to view those who speak less precisely; and we shall
23  Soph|        mind, and yet ventures to speak confidently about anything.~
24  Soph|         STRANGER: I mean that we speak of man, for example, under
25  Soph|      thousand others we not only speak of him as a man, but also
26  Soph|     instead of three; or when we speak of the same and other, are
27  Soph|      question?~STRANGER: When we speak of not-being, we speak,
28  Soph|        we speak of not-being, we speak, I suppose, not of something
29  Soph|          mean?~STRANGER: When we speak of something as not great,
30  Soph|      STRANGER: Then, now, let us speak of names, as before we were
31  Soph|        Of whom does the sentence speak, and who is the subject?
32  Soph|         admitted by every one to speak of me, and to apply to me.~
33  Soph|   STRANGER: And shall we further speak of this latter class as