Dialogue

 1 Parme|     Plato. Their transcendental existence is not asserted, and is
 2 Parme|        Ideas, that is, of their existence apart from the mind, in
 3 Parme|      that the hypothesis of the existence of the many involved greater
 4 Parme|       any one who maintains the existence of absolute ideas will affirm
 5 Parme|        either that they have no existence, or are beyond human knowledge.’ ‘
 6 Parme|      from the assumption of the existence of the many, and the counter-argument
 7 Parme|  follows from the denial of the existence of the many: and similarly
 8 Parme| phenomena. Still he affirms the existence of such ideas; and this
 9 Parme|          Ideas must have a real existence;’ they are not mere forms
10 Parme|      thus described has no real existence. The mind, after having
11 Parme|       Eleatics had asserted the existence of Being, which they at
12 Parme|      had attempted to prove the existence of the one by disproving
13 Parme|       the one by disproving the existence of the many, and Parmenides
14 Parme|     seems to aim at proving the existence of the subject by showing
15 Parme|   involves change of place. But existence in place has been already
16 Parme|    place, which implies partial existence in two places at once, or
17 Parme|       places at once, or entire existence neither within nor without
18 Parme|         infinite, and therefore existence must be infinite, for all
19 Parme|        and therefore two has no existence, and therefore there is
20 Parme|         And the parts come into existence first; last of all the whole,
21 Parme|         may be deduced from the existence of one? There is. One is
22 Parme|   things, and there is no third existence besides them. And the whole
23 Parme|         the second, the verb of existence. As in the first series,
24 Parme|    not-being is identified with existence or non-existence in place
25 Parme|         as for example when the existence of the one and the non-existence
26 Parme|  equally assumed to involve the existence of the many: (12) Words
27 Parme|       Being or Substance had no existence, but he is preparing for
28 Parme|    consequences follow from the existence or non-existence of one
29 Parme|      that they have or have not existence, but rather that some different
30 Parme|         would have asserted the existence of ‘things in themselves,’
31 Parme|    methods of reasoning then in existence, and in this point of view,
32 Parme|       copula,’ and the ‘verb of existence.’ Would not the distinction
33 Parme|         him to have a necessary existence; nor does he attempt to
34 Parme|       means intends to deny the existence of universals or the unity
35 Parme|         metaphysical world into existence any more than we can frame
36 Parme|        only, and have no proper existence except in our minds, Parmenides?
37 Parme|      unless he who denies their existence be a man of great ability
38 Parme|       any one who maintains the existence of absolute essences, will
39 Parme|         them will deny the very existence of them—and even if they
40 Parme|       come or to have come into existence?~The lesser.~Then the least
41 Parme|           to remit something of existence in relation to not-being.’)