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245 Str. But yet nothing hinders that which has parts from possessing the attribute of unity in all its parts and being in this way one, since it is all and whole.

245 Theaet. Very true.

245 Str. But is it not impossible for that which is in this condition to be itself absolute unity?

245 Theaet. Why?

245 Str. Why surely that which is really one must, according to right reason, be affirmed to be absolutely without parts.

245 Theaet. Yes, it must.

245 Str. But such a unity consisting of many parts will not harmonize with reason.

245 Theaet. I understand.

245 Str. Then shall we agree that being is one and a whole because it has the attribute of unity, or shall we deny that being is a whole at all?

245 Theaet. It is a hard choice that you offer me.

245 Str. That is very true; for being, having in a way had unity imposed upon it, will evidently not be the same as unity, and the all will be more than one.

245 Theaet. Yes.

245 Str. And further, if being is not a whole through having had the attribute of unity imposed upon it, and the absolute whole exists, then it turns out that being lacks something of being.

245 Theaet. Certainly.

245 Str. And so, by this reasoning, since being is deprived of being, it will be not-being.

245 Theaet. So it will.

245 Str. And again the all becomes more than the one, since being and the whole have acquired each its own nature.

245 Theaet. Yes.

245 Str. But if the whole does not exist at all, being is involved in the same difficulties as before, and besides not existing it could not even have ever come into existence

245 Theaet. What do you mean?

245 Str. That which comes into existence always comes into existence as a whole. Therefore no one who does not reckon the whole among things that are can speak of existence or generation as being.

245 Theaet. That certainly seems to be true.

245 Str. And moreover, that which is not a whole cannot have any quantity at all; for if it has any quantity, whatever that quantity may be, it must necessarily be of that quantity as a whole.

245 Theaet. Precisely.

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