STRANGER: And equally irrational to admit that a name is anything?

THEAETETUS: How so?

STRANGER: To distinguish the name from the thing, implies duality.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And yet he who identifies the name with the thing will be

compelled to say that it is the name of nothing, or if he says that it

is the name of something, even then the name will only be the name of a

name, and of nothing else.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And the one will turn out to be only one of one, and being

absolute unity, will represent a mere name.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: And would they say that the whole is other than the one that

is, or the same with it?

THEAETETUS: To be sure they would, and they actually say so.

STRANGER: If being is a whole, as Parmenides sings,--

Sophist