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Quotation from Sophist by Plato

“That you will promise not to regard me as a parricide”

Plato (spoken by The Eleatic Stranger)

Sophist, The problem of not-being, c. 241d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Before testing Parmenides' prohibition on saying that not-being is, the Stranger asks Theaetetus' indulgence.

Citation: "That you will promise not to regard me as a parricide" — Plato, Sophist, The problem of not-being, c. 241d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q4)

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