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Stranger
I have another still more urgent request to make of you.Theaetetus
What is it?Stranger
Do not assume that I am becoming a sort of parricide.Theaetetus
What do you mean?Stranger
In defending myself I shall have to test the theory of my father Parmenides, and contend forcibly that after a fashion not-being is and on the other hand in a sense being is not.Theaetetus
It is plain that some such contention is necessary.Stranger
Yes, plain even to a blind man, as they say; for unless these statements
I have another still more urgent request to make of you.Theaetetus
What is it?Stranger
Do not assume that I am becoming a sort of parricide.Theaetetus
What do you mean?Stranger
In defending myself I shall have to test the theory of my father Parmenides, and contend forcibly that after a fashion not-being is and on the other hand in a sense being is not.Theaetetus
It is plain that some such contention is necessary.Stranger
Yes, plain even to a blind man, as they say; for unless these statements