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to confess that they have no existence or to assert that they are all bodies.Stranger
It is clear, Theaetetus, that our men have grown better; for the aboriginal sons of the dragon's teeth1 among them would not shrink from any such utterance; they would maintain that nothing which they cannot squeeze with their hands has any existence at all.Theaetetus
That is pretty nearly what they believe.Stranger
Then let us question them further; for if they are willing to admit that any existence, no matter how small, is incorporeal,
It is clear, Theaetetus, that our men have grown better; for the aboriginal sons of the dragon's teeth1 among them would not shrink from any such utterance; they would maintain that nothing which they cannot squeeze with their hands has any existence at all.Theaetetus
That is pretty nearly what they believe.Stranger
Then let us question them further; for if they are willing to admit that any existence, no matter how small, is incorporeal,