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“What?” said he.
“We predicate ‘to be’1 of many beautiful things and many
good things, saying of them severally that they are, and so define them in
our speech.” “We do.” “And again, we
speak of a self-beautiful and of a good that is only and merely good, and
so, in the case of all the things that we then posited as many, we turn
about and posit each as a single idea or aspect, assuming it to be a unity
and call it that which each really is.2 “It is
so.” “And the one class of things we say can be seen but
not thought,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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