say that they are?

THEAETETUS: Of course not.

STRANGER: Then you conceive of being as some third and distinct nature,

under which rest and motion are alike included; and, observing that they

both participate in being, you declare that they are.

THEAETETUS: Truly we seem to have an intimation that being is some third

thing, when we say that rest and motion are.

STRANGER: Then being is not the combination of rest and motion, but

something different from them.

THEAETETUS: So it would appear.

STRANGER: Being, then, according to its own nature, is neither in motion

nor at rest.

THEAETETUS: That is very much the truth.

STRANGER: Where, then, is a man to look for help who would have any

clear or fixed notion of being in his mind?

THEAETETUS: Where, indeed?

Sophist