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    Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman

    Sophist: Stranger

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    [263e] and the several differences between them.

    Theaetetus

    Give me an opportunity.

    Stranger

    Well, then, thought and speech are the same; only the former, which is a silent inner conversation of the soul with itself, has been given the special name of thought. Is not that true?

    Theaetetus

    Certainly.

    Stranger

    But the stream that flows from the soul in vocal utterance through the mouth has the name of speech?

    Theaetetus

    True.

    Stranger

    And in speech we know there is just--

    Theaetetus

    What?

    Stranger

    Affirmation and negation

    Theaetetus

    Yes, we know that.


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    Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
    3, 400D

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
    OCLC: 21777623, 26697110, 20083931
    ISBN: 0674991850, 0674991370, 0674991826

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