ABSTRACT
IT is the purpose of this short paper 2 to consider the meaning and implications of a sentence in Plato's Sophist. At the end of the section on κοινωνία γενω̑ν the Eleatic visitor is made to speak as follows (259e 4–6): τελεωτάτη πάντων λόγων ἐστὶν ἀφάνισις τὸ διαλύειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ πάντων· διὰ γὰρ τὴν ἀλλήλων τω̑ν εἰδω̑ν συμπλοκὴν ὁ λόγος γέγονεν ἡμι̑ν. I shall be mainly concerned with the second half of this remark, and shall refer to it, for brevity, as sentence or statement S.
