Plato, Cratylus, section 385b

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Hermogenes
Yes, that is my opinion.

Socrates
Now answer this question. Is there anything which you call speaking the truth and speaking falsehood?

Hermogenes
Yes.

Socrates
Then there would be true speech and false speech?

Hermogenes
Certainly.

Socrates
Then that speech which says things as they are is true, and that which says them as they are not is false?

Hermogenes
Yes.

Socrates
It is possible, then, to say in speech that which is and that which is not?

Hermogenes
Certainly.

Socrates
But is true speech true only as a whole,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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