Plato, Theaetetus, section 204b

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[204b] or that each of the two is different from the other?

Theaetetus
I am not sure; but you tell me to answer boldly, so I take the risk and say that they are different.

Socrates
Your boldness, Theaetetus, is right; but whether your answer is so remains to be seen.

Theaetetus
Yes, certainly, we must see about that.

Socrates
The whole, then, according to our present view, would differ from all?

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
How about this? Is there any difference between all in the plural and all in the singular? For instance, if we say one, two, three,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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