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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: or the same with it?
THEAETETUS: To be sure they would, and they actually say so.
STRANGER: If being is a whole, as Parmenides sings,--
'Every way like unto the fullness of a well-rounded sphere,
Evenly balanced from the centre on every side,
And must needs be neither greater nor less in any way,
Neither on this side nor on that--'
then being has a centre and extremes, and, having these, must also have
parts.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: Yet that which has parts may have the attribute of unity in all
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