Plato, Sophist, section 237e

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[237e]

Stranger
And he who says not something, must quite necessarily say absolutely nothing.

Theaetetus
Quite necessarily.

Stranger
Then we cannot even concede that such a person speaks, but says nothing? We must even declare that he who undertakes to say “not-being” does not speak at all?

Theaetetus
The argument could go no further in perplexity.

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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