Dialogue

 1 Parme|         the connexion between the two parts is at first sight
 2 Parme|          and in the latter of the two we are left in doubt as
 3 Parme|           referred to by Plato in two other places (Theaet., Soph.).~
 4 Parme|           which he actually held.~Two preliminary remarks may
 5 Parme|      would place in juxtaposition two absolutely divided and incoherent
 6 Parme|            as we have divided the two spheres, and forbidden any
 7 Parme| correcting the youthful Socrates. Two points in his criticism
 8 Parme|        there are not only one but two chasms: the first, between
 9 Parme|      absolute. The first of these two difficulties mankind, as
10 Parme|         divine from the human, as two spheres which had no communication
11 Parme|          which Plato connects the two parts of the dialogue.~The
12 Parme|        derived from either of the two alternative propositions
13 Parme|      applies to the second of the two theories. Plato everywhere
14 Parme|         of them.~The argument has two divisions: There is the
15 Parme|        and is not may be taken in two senses: Either one is one,
16 Parme|     things.~To which are appended two subordinate consequences:
17 Parme|          it is nothing.~Involving two parallel consequences respecting
18 Parme|         and therefore not one but two. This being premised, let
19 Parme|      implies partial existence in two places at once, or entire
20 Parme|           or the being of one are two parts, being and one, which
21 Parme|        one whole. And each of the two parts is also a whole, and
22 Parme|          is therefore not one but two; and thus one is never one,
23 Parme|        other, in any case we have two things which separately
24 Parme|       together both. And both are two and either of two is severally
25 Parme|        both are two and either of two is severally one, and if
26 Parme|      pairs, the sum is three; and two is an even number, three
27 Parme|         number, three an odd; and two units exist twice, and therefore
28 Parme|         therefore there are twice two; and three units exist thrice,
29 Parme|       give twice three and thrice two: we have even numbers multiplied
30 Parme|           or a combination of the two, and being a whole includes
31 Parme|            and would therefore be two, and in two places. But
32 Parme|          therefore be two, and in two places. But one cannot be
33 Parme|         places. But one cannot be two, and therefore cannot be
34 Parme|          can one touch the other. Two objects are required to
35 Parme|       contact; three objects make two contacts; and all the objects
36 Parme|          one only exists, and not two, there is no contact. And
37 Parme|          in number, and therefore two has no existence, and therefore
38 Parme|      deprived of being? But these two contradictory states cannot
39 Parme|       participation in one; or of two opposites, and this would
40 Parme|       would be a participation in two. Thus if one exists, one
41 Parme|           that anything can be in two places at once. It is a
42 Parme|          11) The relation between two terms is regarded under
43 Parme|      though we cannot compare the two in detail. But Plato also
44 Parme|           negation of a negation. Two minus signs in arithmetic
45 Parme|           or algebra make a plus. Two negatives destroy each other.
46 Parme|        many they cease to be one.~Two points remain to be considered:
47 Parme|        are the same philosophy in two forms, and the simpler form
48 Parme|       Plato is warning us against two sorts of ‘Idols of the Den’:
49 Parme|          world; secondly, against two idols in particular, ‘Unity’
50 Parme|           term substance at least two celebrated theological controversies
51 Parme|          Christians have included two characters or natures as
52 Parme|         follow from either of the two alternatives, that God is
53 Parme|       likeness, and that in these two, you and I and all other
54 Parme|        like.~Impossible.~And when two things are alike, must they
55 Parme|        will not that of which the two partake, and which makes
56 Parme|        will be no longer one, but two?~True.~Then one cannot be
57 Parme|           at the least made up of two parts; and the same principle
58 Parme|         whatever has always these two parts; for being always
59 Parme|        disappearing, and becoming two.~Certainly.~And so the one,
60 Parme|           If being and the one be two different things, it is
61 Parme|           every such case we take two things, which may be rightly
62 Parme|    correctly called both, be also two?~Undoubtedly.~And of two
63 Parme|          two?~Undoubtedly.~And of two things how can either by
64 Parme|          of the pair are together two, they must be severally
65 Parme|            And three are odd, and two are even?~Of course.~And
66 Parme|          course.~And if there are two there must also be twice,
67 Parme|       that is, if twice one makes two, and thrice one three?~Certainly.~
68 Parme|       three?~Certainly.~There are two, and twice, and therefore
69 Parme|     therefore there must be twice two; and there are three, and
70 Parme|           three; and if there are two and thrice, there is thrice
71 Parme|           thrice, there is thrice two?~Undoubtedly.~Here, then,
72 Parme|       being to the one, but being two they are co-equal and co-extensive.~
73 Parme|          round, or a union of the two?~True.~And if this is the
74 Parme|        others, on either of these two grounds, or on both of them,
75 Parme|        itself, on either of these two grounds and on both of them,
76 Parme|    require that the one should be two, and be in two places at
77 Parme|          should be two, and be in two places at once, and this,
78 Parme|           any more than it can be two?~It cannot.~Neither can
79 Parme|        can be between them.~True.~Two things, then, at the least
80 Parme|           They are.~And if to the two a third be added in due
81 Parme|           three, and the contacts two?~Yes.~And every additional
82 Parme|         than the terms; the first two terms exceeded the number
83 Parme|        there be only one, and not two, there will be no contact?~
84 Parme|        others are neither one nor two, nor are they called by
85 Parme|           then, alone is one, and two do not exist?~Clearly not.~
86 Parme|         not.~And if there are not two, there is no contact?~There
87 Parme|         Certainly.~Then there are two such ideas as greatness
88 Parme|        takes place into either of two states; for the change is
89 Parme|           neither are nor contain two or three, if entirely deprived
90 Parme|       unlikeness, they would have two natures in them opposite
91 Parme|          of nothing to partake of two things was held by us to
92 Parme|           partake of one of those two natures, which would be
93 Parme|          opposites which would be two things, and this has been
94 Parme|       will participate in one and two and three, and odd and even,
95 Parme|       only, or rather are not the two expressions—if the one is