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for long time to discover it, when it was close to you all the while?Philebus
How is that?Socrates
Was not our discussion from the beginning about wisdom and pleasure and which of them is preferable?Philebus
Yes, of course.Socrates
And surely we say that each of them is one.Philebus
Certainly.Socrates
This, then, is precisely the question which the previous discussion puts to us: How is each of them one and many, and how is it that they are not immediately infinite, but each possesses a definite number, before the individual phenomena become infinite?
How is that?Socrates
Was not our discussion from the beginning about wisdom and pleasure and which of them is preferable?Philebus
Yes, of course.Socrates
And surely we say that each of them is one.Philebus
Certainly.Socrates
This, then, is precisely the question which the previous discussion puts to us: How is each of them one and many, and how is it that they are not immediately infinite, but each possesses a definite number, before the individual phenomena become infinite?