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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: Quite true.
STRANGER: But, if so, I was wrong in telling you just now that the
difficulty which was coming is the greatest of all.
THEAETETUS: What! is there a greater still behind?
STRANGER: Well, I am surprised, after what has been said already, that you
do not see the difficulty in which he who would refute the notion of not-
being is involved. For he is compelled to contradict himself as soon as he
makes the attempt.
THEAETETUS: What do you mean? Speak more clearly.
STRANGER: Do not expect clearness from me. For I, who maintain that not-
being has no part either in the one or many, just now spoke and am still
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