Plato, Sophist, section 263b

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[263b]

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
Now what quality shall be ascribed to each of these sentences?

Theaetetus
One is false, I suppose, the other true.

Stranger
The true one states facts as they are about you.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Stranger
And the false one states things that are other than the facts.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
In other words, it speaks of things that are not as if they were.

Theaetetus
Yes, that is pretty much what it does.

Stranger
And states with reference to you that things are which are other than things which actually are; for we said, you know, that in respect to everything there are many things that are and many that are not.

Theaetetus
To be sure.

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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