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for if the beautiful is in this group, that which is pleasing through sight and hearing would no longer be the beautiful. For the expression through sight and hearing makes both collectively beautiful, but not each individually; and this was impossible, as you and I agree.Hippias
Yes, we agree.Socrates
It is, then, impossible that the pleasant through sight and hearing be the beautiful, since in becoming beautiful it offers an impossibility.Hippias
That is true.Socrates
“Then tell us again,” he will say, “from the beginning,
Yes, we agree.Socrates
It is, then, impossible that the pleasant through sight and hearing be the beautiful, since in becoming beautiful it offers an impossibility.Hippias
That is true.Socrates
“Then tell us again,” he will say, “from the beginning,