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Is not that about what you mean?”“Perhaps it is,” said Socrates.“Would the whole sail be over each person, or a particular part over each?”“A part over each.”“Then,” said he, “the ideas themselves, Socrates, are divisible into parts, and the objects which partake of them would partake of a part, and in each of them there would be not the whole, but only a part of each idea.”“So it appears.”“Are you, then, Socrates, willing to assert that the one idea is really divided and will still be one?”“By no means,” he replied.“No,” said Parmenides, “for if you divide absolute greatness,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
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