The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: experienced the affections aforesaid?
True.
1.bb. Suppose, now, that we leave the further discussion of these matters
as evident, and consider again upon the hypothesis that the one is, whether
opposite of all this is or is not equally true of the others.
By all means.
Then let us begin again, and ask, If one is, what must be the affections of
the others?
Let us ask that question.
Must not the one be distinct from the others, and the others from the one?
Why so?
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