Plato, Sophist, section 247e

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[247e] or to be affected even in the least degree by the slightest cause, though it be only on one occasion, has real existence. For I set up as a definition which defines being, that it is nothing else but power.

Theaetetus
Well, since they have at the moment nothing better of their own to offer, they accept this.

Stranger
Good; for perhaps later something else may occur to them and to us. As between them

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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