Dialogue

 1 Intro|          Acknowledging that there is a communion of kinds with kinds, and
 2 Intro|                or classes incapable of communion, we discover ‘Not-being’
 3 Intro|              is the recognition of the communion of classes, which, although
 4 Intro|                all have indiscriminate communion? or (3) that there is communion
 5 Intro|        communion? or (3) that there is communion of some and not of others?
 6 Intro|             But (2) if all things have communion with all things, motion
 7 Intro|      hypothesis, that some things have communion and others not, and that
 8 Intro|                 and that some may have communion with all, let us examine
 9 Intro|           found to be relation. In the communion of different kinds, being
10 Intro| unphilosophical than the denial of all communion of kinds. And we are fortunate
11 Intro|              having established such a communion for another reason, because
12 Intro|             discourse if there were no communion. For the Sophist, although
13  Soph|               things have the power of communion with one another—what will
14  Soph|                 either all things have communion with all; or nothing with
15  Soph|            remaining hypothesis of the communion of some with some.~THEAETETUS:
16  Soph|             Quite true.~STRANGER: This communion of some with some may be
17  Soph|         determines where they can have communion with one another and where
18  Soph|               that some classes have a communion with one another, and others
19  Soph|              others not, and some have communion with a few and others with
20  Soph|              should not have universal communion with all, let us now pursue
21  Soph|          natures and their capacity of communion with one another, in order
22  Soph|                we affirm, incapable of communion with one another.~THEAETETUS:
23  Soph|               Whereas being surely has communion with both of them, for both
24  Soph|               the same, because having communion with the other, it is thereby
25  Soph|             not.~STRANGER: That such a communion of kinds is according to
26  Soph|              nature of classes to have communion with one another; and if
27  Soph|       conclusion [i.e., respecting the communion of ideas], and then he may
28  Soph|                saying, that there is a communion of classes, and that being,
29  Soph|               find also that they have communion with not-being, and, having