Dialogue

 1 Intro|         He had once thought as he says, speaking by the mouth of
 2 Intro|          current. When Protagoras says, ‘I confess that I am a
 3 Intro|         in the Statesman, when he says that we should divide in
 4 Intro|     principles, until, as he also says in the Statesman, we arrive
 5 Intro|          in the Phaedrus, when he says that the dialectician will
 6 Intro|          thinking of this when he says that Being comprehends Not-being.
 7 Intro| Philosopher, statesman, sophist,’ says Socrates, repeating the
 8 Intro|       Socrates.~We are agreed, he says, about the name Sophist,
 9 Intro|          You will never find,’ he says, ‘that not-being is.’ And
10 Intro|         in quality, for the first says of you that which is true,
11 Intro|           is true, and the second says of you that which is not
12 Intro|     sometimes from another. As he says at the end of the Fifth
13 Intro|     dominion of a single idea. He says to himself, for example,
14 Intro|      chronology;—if, as Aristotle says, there were Atomists before
15 Intro| possibilities, which, as he truly says, have no place in philosophy.
16  Soph|          of a stranger? For Homer says that all the gods, and especially
17  Soph|     escape us, for as the proverb says, when every way is blocked,
18  Soph|          STRANGER: And when a man says that he knows all things,
19  Soph| THEAETETUS: Why?~STRANGER: He who says that falsehood exists has
20  Soph|    assenting to imply that he who says something must say some
21  Soph|    Exactly.~STRANGER: Then he who says ‘not something’ must say
22  Soph|       admit that a man speaks and says nothing, he who says ‘not-being’
23  Soph|          and says nothing, he who says ‘not-being’ does not speak
24  Soph|         name of nothing, or if he says that it is the name of something,
25  Soph|       infinite trouble to him who says that being is either one
26  Soph|          one, and if any one else says that what is not a body
27  Soph|         STRANGER: Why, because he says—~‘Not-being never is, and
28  Soph|     enquiry.’~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says so.~STRANGER: Whereas, we
29  Soph|          argument, and when a man says that the same is in a manner
30  Soph|       faint heart, as the proverb says, will never take a city:
31  Soph|            STRANGER: When any one says ‘A man learns,’ should you
32  Soph|          true.~STRANGER: The true says what is true about you?~
33  Soph|           STRANGER: And the false says what is other than true?~