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or in any other respect whatsoever, when it is wholly other.Socrates
Must we not, then, necessarily agree that such a thing is also unlike?Theaetetus
It seems so to me.Socrates
Then if anything happens to become like or unlike anything—either itself or anything else—we shall say that when it becomes like it becomes the same, and when it becomes unlike it becomes other?Theaetetus
We must.Socrates
Well, we said before, did we not, that the active elements were many—infinite in fact—and likewise the passive elements?Theaetetus
Yes.Socrates
And furthermore, that any given element, by uniting at different times with different partners, will beget, not the same, but other results?
Must we not, then, necessarily agree that such a thing is also unlike?Theaetetus
It seems so to me.Socrates
Then if anything happens to become like or unlike anything—either itself or anything else—we shall say that when it becomes like it becomes the same, and when it becomes unlike it becomes other?Theaetetus
We must.Socrates
Well, we said before, did we not, that the active elements were many—infinite in fact—and likewise the passive elements?Theaetetus
Yes.Socrates
And furthermore, that any given element, by uniting at different times with different partners, will beget, not the same, but other results?
