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Stranger

Str. Theaetetus, with whom I am now talking, flies.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Every one would agree that this also is about me and I am its subject.

Stranger

Str. But we agree that every sentence must have some quality. 10

Theaetetus

Theaet. Yes.

Stranger

Str. Now what quality shall be ascribed to each of these sentences?

Theaetetus

Theaet. One is false, I suppose, the other true.

Stranger

Str. The true one states facts as they are about you.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Certainly. 15

Stranger

Str. And the false one states things that are other than the facts.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Yes.

Stranger

Str. In other words, it speaks of things that are not as if they were.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Yes, that is pretty much what it does.

Stranger

Str. And states with reference to you that things are which are other than things which actually are; for we said, you know, that in respect to everything there are many things that are and many that are not. 20

Theaetetus

Theaet. To be sure.

Stranger

Str. Now the second of my sentences about you is in the first place by sheer necessity one of the shortest which conform to our definition of sentence.

Theaetetus

Theaet. At any rate we just now agreed on that point.

Stranger

Str. And secondly it has a subject.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Yes. 25

Stranger

Str. And if you are not the subject, there is none.

Theaetetus

Theaet. Certainly not.