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263 Theaet. Every one would agree that this also is about me and I am its subject.

263 Str. But we agree that every sentence must have some quality.

263 Theaet. Yes.

263 Str. Now what quality shall be ascribed to each of these sentences?

263 Theaet. One is false, I suppose, the other true.

263 Str. The true one states facts as they are about you.

263 Theaet. Certainly.

263 Str. And the false one states things that are other than the facts.

263 Theaet. Yes.

263 Str. In other words, it speaks of things that are not as if they were.

263 Theaet. Yes, that is pretty much what it does.

263 Str. And states with reference to you that things are which are other than things which actually are; for we said, you know, that in respect to everything there are many things that are and many that are not.

263 Theaet. To be sure.

263 Str. Now the second of my sentences about you is in the first place by sheer necessity one of the shortest which conform to our definition of sentence.

263 Theaet. At any rate we just now agreed on that point.

263 Str. And secondly it has a subject.

263 Theaet. Yes.

263 Str. And if you are not the subject, there is none.

263 Theaet. Certainly not.

263 Str. And if there is no subject, it would not be a sentence at all; for we showed that a sentence without a subject is impossible.

263 Theaet. Quite right.

263 Str. Now when things are said about you, but things other are said as the same and things that are not as things that are, it appears that when such a combination is formed of verbs and nouns we have really and truly false discourse.

263 Theaet. Yes, very truly.

263 Str. Is it, then, not already plain that the three classes, thought, opinion, and fancy, all arise in our minds as both false and true?

263 Theaet. How is it plain?

263 Str. You will understand more easily if you first grap their natures and the several differences between them.

263 Theaet. Give me an opportunity.

263 Str. 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?

263 Theaet. Certainly.

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