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Σοφιστής Plato

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Theaetetus
Theaet. None whatever.
Stranger
Str. Do you observe, then, that we have gone farther in our distrust of Parmenides than the limit set by his prohibition?
Theaetetus
Theaet. What do you mean?
Stranger
Str. We have proceeded farther in our investigation and have shown him more than that which he forbade us to examine. 15
Theaetetus
Theaet. How so?
Stranger
Str. Because he says somewhere:Never shall this thought prevail, that not-being is;Nay, keep your mind from this path of investigation,Parmenides Fr. 7.1
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes, that is what he says.
Stranger
Str. But we have not only pointed out that things which are not exist, but we have even shown what the form or class of not-being is; for we have pointed out that the nature of the other exists and is distributed in small bits throughout all existing things in their relations to one another, and we have ventured to say that each part of the other which is contrasted with being, really is exactly not-being.
Theaetetus
Theaet. And certainly, Stranger, I think that what we have said is perfectly true. 20

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