Gorgias: Socrates, let me ask you, are you aware of darkness?
Socrates: Yes, indeed. I am.
Gorgias: You should be. Let me pose another question to you
Socrates: Go ahead, pray do. Gor: Is darkness the equivalence of nothingness? Soc: Not at all. Darkness is something intangible but it has existence. Darkness has its own value without which there would be no light. Gor: I beg to differ. Darkness is the absence of light, making it the lack of value. This is what I would call nothingness.
Soc: That is where I would suppose you go wrong in your assumptions.
Gor: I make no assumptions but only truths. Soc: Darkness is not the absence of light. I would use the same argument for light and say that it is the ...