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“It
would remain, then, as it seems, for us to discover that which partakes of
both, of to be and not to be, and that could not be rightly designated
either in its exclusive purity; so that, if it shall be discovered, we may
justly pronounce it to be the opinable, thus assigning extremes to extremes
and the intermediate to the intermediate. Is not that so?”
“It is.” “This much premised, let him tell me,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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