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Θεαίτητος

Θεαίτητος Plato
204 THEAET. Yes, I do.
204 SOC. Do you then say that all and the whole are the same, or that each of the two is different from the other?
204 THEAET. I am not sure; but you tell me to answer boldly, so I take the risk and say that they are different.
204 SOC. Your boldness, Theaetetus, is right; but whether your answer is so remains to be seen.
204 THEAET. Yes, certainly, we must see about that.
204 SOC. The whole, then, according to our present view, would differ from all?
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. How about this? Is there any difference between all in the plural and all in the singular? For instance, if we say one, two, three, four, five, six, or twice three, or three times two, or four and two, or three and two and one, are we in all these forms speaking of the same or of different numbers?
204 THEAET. Of the same.
204 SOC. That is, of six?
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. Then in each form of speech we have spoken of all the six?
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. And again do we not speak of one thing when we speak of them all?
204 THEAET. Assuredly.
204 SOC. That is, of six?
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. Then in all things that are made up of number, we apply the same term to all in the plural and all in the singular?
204 THEAET. Apparently.
204 SOC. Here is another way of approaching the matter. The number of the fathom and the fathom are the same, are they not?
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. And of the furlong likewise.
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. And the number of the army is the same as the army, and all such cases are alike? In each of them all the number is all the thing.
204 THEAET. Yes.
204 SOC. And is the number of each anything but the parts of each?
204 THEAET. No.
204 SOC. Everything that has parts, accordingly, consists of parts, does it not?
204 THEAET. Evidently.
204 SOC. But we are agreed that the all must be all the parts if all the number is to be the all. Cf. Plat. Theaet. 204b

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