Dialogue

 1 Intro|               and invisible qualities exist, what is the common nature
 2 Intro| contradictions—how then can they both exist? Does he who affirms this
 3 Intro|              been discovered by us to exist, and we have acknowledged
 4 Intro|             of the individual did not exist; in the philosophy of Anaxagoras
 5  Soph|      existence something that did not exist before is said to be a producer,
 6  Soph|              conquering, things which exist and have been already produced—
 7  Soph|        THEAETETUS: Yes, if both kinds exist.~STRANGER: Of course they
 8  Soph|              STRANGER: Of course they exist; but the hunting after lifeless
 9  Soph|               not must be imagined to exist in a certain sense, if any
10  Soph|           things which most certainly exist do not exist at all?~THEAETETUS:
11  Soph|           most certainly exist do not exist at all?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~
12  Soph|             But if the whole does not exist at all, all the previous
13  Soph|           will be admitted by them to exist?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
14  Soph|          virtues, and their opposites exist, as well as a soul in which
15  Soph|           mode and subject could ever exist without a principle of rest?~
16  Soph|               without them mind could exist, or come into existence
17  Soph|              not-great may be said to exist, equally with the great?~
18  Soph|           must equally be supposed to exist.~THEAETETUS: Of course.~
19  Soph|         imagination are now proved to exist in our minds both as true
20  Soph|                which causes things to exist, not previously existing,