Plato, Sophist, section 264c

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[264c] for now that these points are settled, we have only to revert to our previous divisions into classes.

Theaetetus
What divisions?

Stranger
We made two classes of image-making, the likeness-making and the fantastic.¹

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
And we said that we did not know to which of the two the sophist should be assigned.

Theaetetus
You are right.

Stranger
And in the midst of our perplexity about that, we were overwhelmed by a still greater dizziness when the doctrine appeared which challenges everybody and asserts that neither likeness nor image

1 See Plat. Theaet. 235d ff

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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