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Theaetetus
We really do seem to have a vague vision of being as some third thing, when we say that motion and rest are.Stranger
Then being is not motion and rest in combination, but something else, different from them.Theaetetus
Apparently.Stranger
According to its own nature, then, being is neither at rest nor in motion.Theaetetus
You are about right.Stranger
What is there left, then, to which a man can still turn his mind who wishes to establish within himself any clear conception of being?Theaetetus
What indeed?Stranger
There is nothing left, I think, to which he can turn easily. For if
We really do seem to have a vague vision of being as some third thing, when we say that motion and rest are.Stranger
Then being is not motion and rest in combination, but something else, different from them.Theaetetus
Apparently.Stranger
According to its own nature, then, being is neither at rest nor in motion.Theaetetus
You are about right.Stranger
What is there left, then, to which a man can still turn his mind who wishes to establish within himself any clear conception of being?Theaetetus
What indeed?Stranger
There is nothing left, I think, to which he can turn easily. For if
