"When Plato in the Sophist remarks that all those, pluralists or monists, who have spoken before him about being are tellers of myth, this is not because they did so within the framework of a theological narration (even if this is indeed the case for some of them), but because they all answer the question of the number of beings without having asked themselves what the term "is" means: their mythology consists in not raising the appropriate questions."
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André Laks, The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy (2006), p. 39
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