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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: None whatever.
Then if one is, number must also be?
It must.
But if there is number, there must also be many, and infinite multiplicity
of being; for number is infinite in multiplicity, and partakes also of
being: am I not right?
Certainly.
And if all number participates in being, every part of number will also
participate?
Yes.
Then being is distributed over the whole multitude of things, and nothing
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