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İngilizce Yunanca

237 Str. This statement involves the bold assumption that not-being exists, for otherwise falsehood could not come into existence. But the great Parmenides, my boy, from the time when we were children to the end of his life, always protested against this and constantly repeated both in prose and in verse:Never let this thought prevail, saith he, that not-being is;But keep your mind from this way of investigation.Parmenides Fr. 7 So that is his testimony, and a reasonable examination of the statement itself would make it most absolutely clear. Let us then consider this matter first, if it’s all the same to you.

237 Theaet. Assume my consent to anything you wish. Consider only the argument, how it may best be pursued; follow your own course, and take me along with you.

237 Str. Very well, then. Now tell me; do we venture to use the phrase absolute not-being?

237 Theaet. Of course.

237 Str. If, then, not merely for the sake of discussion or as a joke, but seriously, one of his pupils were asked to consider and answer the question To what is the designation not-being to be applied? how do we think he would reply to his questioner, and how would he apply the term, for what purpose, and to what object?

237 Theaet. That is a difficult question; I may say that for a fellow like me it is unanswerable.

237 Str. But this is clear, anyhow, that the term not-being cannot be applied to any being.

237 Theaet. Of course not.

237 Str. And if not to being, then it could not properly be applied to something, either.

237 Theaet. How could it?

237 Str. And this is plain to us, that we always use the word something of some being, for to speak of something in the abstract, naked, as it were, and disconnected from all beings is impossible, is it not?

237 Theaet. Yes, it is.

237 Str. You assent because you recognize that he who says something must say some one thing?

237 Theaet. Yes.

237 Str. And you will agree that something or some in the singular is the sign of one, in the dual of two, and in the plural of many.

237 Theaet. Of course.

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