Plato, Sophist, section 238a

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[238a]

Stranger
Boast not too soon! For there still remains, my friend, the first and greatest of perplexities. It affects the very beginning of the matter.

Theaetetus
What do you mean? Do not hesitate to speak.

Stranger
To that which is may be added or attributed some other thing which is?

Theaetetus
Of course.

Stranger
But shall we assert that to that which is not anything which is can be attributed?

Theaetetus
Certainly not.

Stranger
Now we assume that all number is among the things which are.

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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