In the Sophist, through the circuits of the ontological-binary procedure of the dialectial divisions, Plato tries to arrive not only at the truth of the things in themselves, but also rigorous methodic treatment, which minimizes its limitations and inadvertences, and locates it in a transcendent dimension, among the types of Being, secures to it the status of philosophical discourse, capable of saying that which is, as it is.
Ancient Philosophy; Plato; language; metaphysics