Plato, Sophist, section 257d

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[257d] has a name of its own; hence there are many arts, as they are called, and kinds of knowledge, or sciences.

Theaetetus
Yes, certainly.

Stranger
And the same is true, by their nature, of the parts of the other, though it also is one concept.

Theaetetus
Perhaps; but let us discuss the matter and see how it comes about.

Stranger
Is there a part of the other which is opposed to the beautiful?

Theaetetus
There is.

Stranger
Shall we say that this is nameless or that it has a name?

Theaetetus
That it has one; for that which in each case we call not-beautiful is surely the other of the nature of the beautiful and of nothing else.

Stranger
Now, then, tell me something more.

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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