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one is telling, or when one does not?When one tells it, he said.Then if you tell it, you tell just that thing which you tell, of all that are, and nothing else whatever?Of course, said Ctesippus.Now the thing that you tell is a single one, distinct from all the others there are.Certainly.Then the person who tells that thing tells that which is?Yes.But yet, surely he who tells what is, and things that are, tells the truth: so that Dionysodorus, if he tells things that are, tells the truth and speaks no lie about you.Yes, said Ctesippus;
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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