THEAETETUS: There is.

STRANGER: Shall we say that this has or has not a name?

THEAETETUS: It has; for whatever we call not-beautiful is other than the

beautiful, not than something else.

STRANGER: And now tell me another thing.

THEAETETUS: What?

STRANGER: Is the not-beautiful anything but this--an existence parted

off from a certain kind of existence, and again from another point of

view opposed to an existing something?

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Then the not-beautiful turns out to be the opposition of being

to being?

THEAETETUS: Very true.

STRANGER: But upon this view, is the beautiful a more real and the

not-beautiful a less real existence?

THEAETETUS: Not at all.

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