Dialogue

 1 Parme|          you may easily show any number of inconsistent consequences.’ ‘
 2 Parme|        implies a greater or less number of measures. But the one,
 3 Parme|   measure; nor a greater or less number of measures, for that would
 4 Parme|        three; and two is an even number, three an odd; and two units
 5 Parme|   implied in one, must not every number exist? And number is infinite,
 6 Parme|          every number exist? And number is infinite, and therefore
 7 Parme|      infinite, for all and every number partakes of being; therefore
 8 Parme| therefore being has the greatest number of parts, and every part,
 9 Parme|       parts and represented by a number corresponding to the number
10 Parme|      number corresponding to the number of the parts. And if so,
11 Parme|      that being has the greatest number of parts; for being is coequal
12 Parme|   limited as well as infinite in number; and that which is a whole
13 Parme|           nor can the not one be number, for that also involves
14 Parme|       one, and therefore none in number, and therefore two has no
15 Parme|       nor duality, nor any other number, nor any opposition or distinction,
16 Parme|       they will have no unity or number, but only a semblance of
17 Parme|         a semblance of unity and number; and the least of them will
18 Parme|     divided, is regarded, like a number, as capable of further infinite
19 Parme|   language in such a manner that number and figure may be made a
20 Parme|         can persuade us that the number one is the number three,
21 Parme|       that the number one is the number three, so neither can we
22 Parme|   thought or objects of sense—to number, time, place, and to the
23 Parme|    spread out a sail and cover a number of men, there would be one
24 Parme|         is as follows:—You see a number of great objects, and when
25 Parme|          if this is so, does any number remain which has no necessity
26 Parme|        whatever.~Then if one is, number must also be?~It must.~But
27 Parme|         It must.~But if there is number, there must also be many,
28 Parme|       multiplicity of being; for number is infinite in multiplicity,
29 Parme|     right?~Certainly.~And if all number participates in being, every
30 Parme|          in being, every part of number will also participate?~Yes.~
31 Parme|         Then it has the greatest number of parts?~Yes, the greatest
32 Parme|         parts?~Yes, the greatest number.~Is there any of these which
33 Parme|    distributed into the greatest number of parts. For it is not
34 Parme|      limits and yet unlimited in number?~Clearly.~And because having
35 Parme|           Nor can the not-one be number; for having number, it would
36 Parme|    not-one be number; for having number, it would not have been
37 Parme|          added in due order, the number of terms will be three,
38 Parme|         contacts are one less in number than the terms; the first
39 Parme|     first two terms exceeded the number of contacts by one, and
40 Parme|   contacts by one, and the whole number of terms exceeds the whole
41 Parme|          terms exceeds the whole number of contacts by one in like
42 Parme|          afterwards added to the number of terms, one contact is
43 Parme|      True.~Whatever is the whole number of things, the contacts
44 Parme|          True.~Then they have no number, if they have no one in
45 Parme|        called by the name of any number?~No.~One, then, alone is
46 Parme|         divisions, it will be in number more or less than itself
47 Parme|    others, and likewise equal in number to itself and to the others?~
48 Parme|         them, it will be more in number than them; and inasmuch
49 Parme|      smaller, it will be less in number; and inasmuch as it is equal
50 Parme|         will be equal to them in number.~Certainly.~Once more, then,
51 Parme|       appear, the one will be in number both equal to and more and
52 Parme|        And a multitude implies a number larger than one?~Of course.~
53 Parme|          of all things that have number is the first to come into
54 Parme|       all other things have also number, being plural and not singular.~
55 Parme|      from each other by an equal number, the one cannot become older
56 Parme|        in the one be infinite in number?~How so?~Let us look at
57 Parme|        see them, be unlimited in number?~Certainly.~And yet, when
58 Parme|  particle of them is infinite in number; and even if a person takes
59 Parme|           And it would seem that number can be predicated of them