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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: overthrown, and that to myself or to any one who asks the question, I may
safely reply, That by beauty beautiful things become beautiful. Do you not
agree with me?
I do.
And that by greatness only great things become great and greater greater,
and by smallness the less become less?
True.
Then if a person were to remark that A is taller by a head than B, and B
less by a head than A, you would refuse to admit his statement, and would
stoutly contend that what you mean is only that the greater is greater by,
and by reason of, greatness, and the less is less only by, and by reason
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