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“Yes, it was.” “And being the same as the others is the opposite of being other than the others.” “Certainly.” “In so far as it was other it was shown to be like.” “Yes.” “Then in so far as it is the same it will be unlike, since it has a quality which is the opposite of the quality which makes it like, for the other made it like.” “Yes.” “Then the same will make it unlike; otherwise the same will not be the opposite of the other.”
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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