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Quotation from Sophist by Plato
“anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another, if only for a single moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect, has real existence”
Sophist, Review of theories of being, c. 247d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The Stranger offers the reformed materialists a mark of being that is wider than body.
Citation: "anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another, if only for a single moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect, has real existence" — Plato, Sophist, Review of theories of being, c. 247d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q6)
