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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: whether I may not assume as a note of the infinite--
PROTARCHUS: What?
SOCRATES: I want to know whether such things as appear to us to admit of
more or less, or are denoted by the words 'exceedingly,' 'gently,'
'extremely,' and the like, may not be referred to the class of the
infinite, which is their unity, for, as was asserted in the previous
argument, all things that were divided and dispersed should be brought
together, and have the mark or seal of some one nature, if possible, set
upon them--do you remember?
PROTARCHUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And all things which do not admit of more or less, but admit
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