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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: Impossible.
Further, I must observe that some substances are assimilated when others
are present with them; and there are some which are not assimilated: take,
for example, the case of an ointment or colour which is put on another
substance.
Very good.
In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour
or ointment?
What do you mean? he said.
This is what I mean: Suppose that I were to cover your auburn locks with
white lead, would they be really white, or would they only appear to be
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