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and a new idea will always be arising, if the idea is like that which partakes of it.”“Very true.”“Then it is not by likeness that other things partake of ideas we must seek some other method of participation.”“So it seems.”“Do you see, then, Socrates, how great the difficulty is, if we maintain that ideas are separate, independent entities?”“Yes, certainly.”“You may be sure,” he said, “that you do not yet, if I may say so,
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