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or whatever we choose to call them, which are amongst us, and from which we receive certain names as we participate in them. And these concrete things, which have the same names with the ideas, are likewise relative only to themselves, not to the ideas, and, belong to themselves, not to the like-named ideas.”“What do you mean?” said Socrates.“For instance,” said Parmenides, “if one of us is master or slave of anyone, he is not the slave of master in the abstract,
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