Plato, Sophist, section 233e

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[233e]

Theaetetus
What do you mean by all things?

Stranger
You fail to grasp the very beginning of what I said; for apparently you do not understand the word “all.”

Theaetetus
No, I do not.

Stranger
I mean you and me among the “all,” and the other animals besides, and the trees.

Theaetetus
What do you mean?

Stranger
If one should say that he would make you and me and all other created beings.

Theaetetus
What would he mean by “making”? Evidently you will not say

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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