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Full Idea
One group drags everything down to earth, insisting that only what offers tangible contact is, since they define being as the same as body, despising anyone who says that something without a body is. These are frightening men.
Gist of Idea
Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.359 BCE], 246b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.39