Dialogue

 1 Parme|    ridicule by showing that the hypothesis of the existence of the
 2 Parme|    greater absurdities than the hypothesis of the one. The book was
 3 Parme|       which follow from a given hypothesis, but the consequences also
 4 Parme|   follow from the denial of the hypothesis. For example, what follows
 5 Parme| affirmative and on the negative hypothesis,—that is, if you are to
 6 Parme|       would follow from a given hypothesis, but what would follow from
 7 Parme|     which is the subject of the hypothesis, and to all other things.
 8 Parme|         as well as the positive hypothesis, with reference to the consequences
 9 Parme|         divisions: There is the hypothesis that~1. One is. 2. One is
10 Parme|         applied to the negative hypothesis: 2.a. If one is not one,
11 Parme|  subject? Suppose I take my own hypothesis of the one.’ ‘By all means,’
12 Parme|      again, assume the opposite hypothesis, that the one is not, and
13 Parme|       is the destruction of the hypothesis; and one cannot be equal
14 Parme|        of ways.~I. On the first hypothesis we may remark: first, That
15 Parme|  retorting upon them that their hypothesis of the being of many, if
16 Parme|        more ridiculous than the hypothesis of the being of one. Zeal
17 Parme|         which flow from a given hypothesis, but also the consequences
18 Parme|     which flow from denying the hypothesis; and that will be still
19 Parme|        in the case of this very hypothesis of Zeno’s about the many,
20 Parme|     itself and the many, on the hypothesis of the being of the many,
21 Parme|     each other, on the opposite hypothesis. Or, again, if likeness
22 Parme|    cases to the subjects of the hypothesis, and to other things, in
23 Parme|         you; will you take some hypothesis and go through the steps?—
24 Parme|         what shall be our first hypothesis, if I am to attempt this
25 Parme|         myself, and take my own hypothesis the one? and consider the
26 Parme|       once more to the original hypothesis; let us see whether, on
27 Parme|        that one is one; but our hypothesis is not if one is one, what
28 Parme|      will follow. Does not this hypothesis necessarily imply that one
29 Parme|         consider again upon the hypothesis that the one is, whether
30 Parme|      What is the meaning of the hypothesis—If the one is not; is there
31 Parme| difference between this and the hypothesis—If the not one is not?~There
32 Parme|     must be meant; nor will the hypothesis relate to one; but it will