Plato, Theaetetus, section 204e

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[204e] the parts of each?

Theaetetus
No.

Socrates
Everything that has parts, accordingly, consists of parts, does it not?

Theaetetus
Evidently.

Socrates
But we are agreed that the all must be all the parts if all the number is to be the all.¹

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
Then the whole does not consist of parts, for if it consisted of all the parts it would be the all.

Theaetetus
That seems to be true.

Socrates
But is a part a part of anything in the world but the whole?

Theaetetus
Yes, of the all.

1 Cf. Plat. Theaet. 204b

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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