THEAETETUS: That is quite true.

STRANGER: And where there is falsehood surely there must be deceit.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And if there is deceit, then all things must be full of idols

and images and fancies.

THEAETETUS: To be sure.

STRANGER: Into that region the Sophist, as we said, made his escape,

and, when he had got there, denied the very possibility of falsehood;

no one, he argued, either conceived or uttered falsehood, inasmuch as

not-being did not in any way partake of being.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And now, not-being has been shown to partake of being, and

therefore he will not continue fighting in this direction, but he will

probably say that some ideas partake of not-being, and some not, and

that language and opinion are of the non-partaking class; and he will

still fight to the death against the existence of the image-making and

phantastic art, in which we have placed him, because, as he will say,

opinion and language do not partake of not-being, and unless this

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