  Scholars have noted that the Stranger’s machinery, as so far  articulated, seems insufficient to address the upcoming problem of  false statement. The visitor has provided an analysis of identity  (via being and sameness), non-identity (via being and difference),  and positive predication (via being). What about negative  predication, needed for Plato’s analysis of false statements,  such as “Theaetetus is flying”? Isn’t this statement false,  precisely because the negative predication, “Theaetetus is not  flying,” is true? Can Plato also handle negative predication?