Dialogue

 1 Parme|            smallness or equality?’ ‘Impossible.’ ‘But how can individuals
 2 Parme|       learner will find them nearly impossible to understand, and the teacher
 3 Parme|       propositions might be equally impossible and contradictory.~When
 4 Parme|            been already shown to be impossible; and yet more impossible
 5 Parme|            impossible; and yet more impossible is coming into being in
 6 Parme|           how can this be? And more impossible still is the coming into
 7 Parme|           or of greatness, which is impossible. Again, if the inherence
 8 Parme|            like one; both which are impossible, if one does not exist.
 9 Parme|             the severer and perhaps impossible method of hypothetical consequences,
10 Parme|        Cynics were making knowledge impossible, he takes their ‘catch-words’
11 Parme|            unlike, and that this is impossible, for neither can the like
12 Parme|        virtue of that portion only?~Impossible.~Or suppose one of us to
13 Parme|            are thoughts of nothing?~Impossible, he said.~The thought must
14 Parme|        other than the like of like.~Impossible.~And when two things are
15 Parme|             the one cannot be many?~Impossible.~Then the one cannot have
16 Parme|          which does not contain it.~Impossible.~But then, that which contains
17 Parme|        carried round upon a centre?~Impossible.~But perhaps the motion
18 Parme|           in anything is still more impossible; is it not?~I do not see
19 Parme|             not one.~Surely that is impossible.~And therefore the one can
20 Parme|           nor the same with itself.~Impossible.~And thus the one can neither
21 Parme|             more than one; which is impossible.~True.~Then the one can
22 Parme|             anything else the same?~Impossible.~And not having the same
23 Parme|           and not partake of being?~Impossible.~Then the one will have
24 Parme|         being, or being to the one?~Impossible.~Thus, each of the parts
25 Parme|             being, and yet no part?~Impossible.~But if it is at all and
26 Parme|            be in the less, which is impossible.~Yes, impossible.~But if
27 Parme|           which is impossible.~Yes, impossible.~But if the whole is neither
28 Parme|          and not its own functions?~Impossible.~Then smallness cannot be
29 Parme|           exceed; this, however, is impossible, seeing that smallness is
30 Parme|          its own nature, or is that impossible?~Impossible.~And yet, surely,
31 Parme|              or is that impossible?~Impossible.~And yet, surely, the one
32 Parme|          merely become. But that is impossible; for they are always becoming
33 Parme|            when partaking of being?~Impossible.~Then the one partakes and
34 Parme|           gives it up at some time?~Impossible.~And the assuming of being
35 Parme|             experiencing change, is impossible.~Impossible.~And surely
36 Parme| experiencing change, is impossible.~Impossible.~And surely there cannot
37 Parme|            part of itself, which is impossible, and it will be a part of
38 Parme|             is truly one has parts?~Impossible.~Then the one will not be
39 Parme|           others, and has no parts?~Impossible.~Then there is no way in
40 Parme|         things was held by us to be impossible?~Impossible.~Then the others
41 Parme|             by us to be impossible?~Impossible.~Then the others are neither
42 Parme|           this has been shown to be impossible.~True.~Therefore they are
43 Parme|             state without changing?~Impossible.~Then everything which is
44 Parme|          from one place to another?~Impossible.~Then it cannot move by
45 Parme|         still be capable of motion?~Impossible.~Now that which is unmoved
46 Parme|        either assume or lose being?~Impossible.~The one then, since it
47 Parme|             others will not be one?~Impossible.~Nor will they be many;