 To sum up, the most natural way to read the text is as repeatedly equivocating between a statement of identity and one that predicates a more general term of the objects denoted by a less general term. The sophist refuses to distinguish the true statement that “[the kind] white horse is not [identical to the kind] horse” from the false “white horse is not [of the kind] horse.” The natural way to interpret “White horse is horse” is as the latter, but the sophist insists on interpreting it as the former. In a few places, the sophist distinguishes the shape of the horse from the color in a way that probably corresponds to “separating hard and white.” 