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158 SOC. Listen, then, while I tell you what would be said about them by those who maintain that what appears at any time is true for him to whom it appears. They begin, I imagine, by asking this question: Theaetetus, can that which is wholly other have in any way the same quality as its alternative? And we must not assume that the thing in question is partially the same and partially other, but wholly other.

159 THEAET. It is impossible for it to be the same in anything, either in quality or in any other respect whatsoever, when it is wholly other.

159 SOC. Must we not, then, necessarily agree that such a thing is also unlike?

159 THEAET. It seems so to me.

159 SOC. Then if anything happens to become like or unlike anything—either itself or anything else—we shall say that when it becomes like it becomes the same, and when it becomes unlike it becomes other?

159 THEAET. We must.

159 SOC. Well, we said before, did we not, that the active elements were many—infinite in fact—and likewise the passive elements?

159 THEAET. Yes.

159 SOC. And furthermore, that any given element, by uniting at different times with different partners, will beget, not the same, but other results?

159 THEAET. Certainly.

159 SOC. Well, then, let us take me, or you, or anything else at hand, and apply the same principle—say Socrates in health and Socrates in illness. Shall we say the one is like the other, or unlike?

159 THEAET. When you say Socrates in illness do you mean to compare that Socrates as a whole with Socrates in health as a whole?

159 SOC. You understand perfectly; that is just what I mean.

159 THEAET. Unlike, I imagine.

159 SOC. And therefore other, inasmuch as unlike?

159 THEAET. Necessarily.

159 SOC. And you would say the same of Socrates asleep or in any of the other states we enumerated just now?

159 THEAET. Yes.

159 SOC. Then each of those elements which by the law of their nature act upon something else, will, when it gets hold of Socrates in health, find me one object to act upon, and when it gets hold of me in illness, another?

159 THEAET. How can it help it?

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