The Stranger in the Sophist who, like Levinas, seems to break with Eleatism in the name of alterity, knows that alterity can be thought only as negativity, and above all, can be said only as negativity, which Levinas begins by refusing; he knows too, that differing from Being, the other is always relative, is stated pros, eteron, which does not prevent it from being an eidos (or a genre, in a itself already supposing, as Heidegger notes in Identity and Difference,' eksastan auto tauton).