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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: Are you not other than a stone?
I am.
And being other than a stone, you are not a stone; and being other than
gold, you are not gold?
Very true.
And so Chaeredemus, he said, being other than a father, is not a father?
I suppose that he is not a father, I replied.
For if, said Euthydemus, taking up the argument, Chaeredemus is a father,
then Sophroniscus, being other than a father, is not a father; and you,
Socrates, are without a father.
Ctesippus, here taking up the argument, said: And is not your father in
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