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Quotation from Sophist by Plato

“Theaetetus, with whom I am now speaking, is flying”

Plato (spoken by The Eleatic Stranger)

Sophist, Speech and false statement, c. 263a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Set beside 'Theaetetus sits', this is the dialogue's test case of a sentence that is about something real and yet false.

Citation: "Theaetetus, with whom I am now speaking, is flying" — Plato, Sophist, Speech and false statement, c. 263a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q8)

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