Plato, Sophist, section 256c

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[256c]

Stranger
And surely we demonstrated that before we took up our present points; we proved that it was according to nature.¹

Theaetetus
Yes, of course.

Stranger
Then let us recapitulate: Motion is other than the other, just as we found it to be other than the same and than rest. Is that true?

Theaetetus
Inevitably.

Stranger
Then it is in a sense not other and also other, according to our present reasoning.

Theaetetus
True.

Stranger
Now how about the next point? Shall we say next that motion is other than the three, but not other than the fourth,—that is, if we have agreed that the classes

1 See Plat. Theaet. 251e ff

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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