THEAETETUS: No.

STRANGER: Then by this admission everything is instantly overturned, as

well the doctrine of universal motion as of universal rest, and also the

doctrine of those who distribute being into immutable and everlasting

kinds; for all these add on a notion of being, some affirming that

things 'are' truly in motion, and others that they 'are' truly at rest.

THEAETETUS: Just so.

STRANGER: Again, those who would at one time compound, and at another

resolve all things, whether making them into one and out of one creating

infinity, or dividing them into finite elements, and forming compounds

out of these; whether they suppose the processes of creation to be

successive or continuous, would be talking nonsense in all this if there

were no admixture.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Most ridiculous of all will the men themselves be who want

to carry out the argument and yet forbid us to call anything, because

participating in some affection from another, by the name of that other.

THEAETETUS: Why so?

Sophist