Dialogue

 1 Parme|            idea of likeness in the abstract, which is the contradictory
 2 Parme| contradictory of unlikeness in the abstract, by participation in either
 3 Parme|      though like and unlike in the abstract are irreconcilable. Nor
 4 Parme|            rest and motion, in the abstract, are capable either of admixture
 5 Parme|              do you think that the abstract ideas of likeness, unity,
 6 Parme|        ideas.’ ‘And would you make abstract ideas of the just, the beautiful,
 7 Parme|            of greatness, which you abstract.’ ‘That is quite true.’ ‘
 8 Parme|          difficulty of maintaining abstract ideas.’ ‘What difficulty?’ ‘
 9 Parme|         the idea of a slave in the abstract is relative to the idea
10 Parme|            idea of a master in the abstract; this correspondence of
11 Parme|         crude idea of Being in the abstract, he was about to proceed
12 Parme|          both admit, the denial of abstract ideas is the destruction
13 Parme|      trivial; their true nature as abstract terms is perfectly understood
14 Parme|     separate from being: will this abstract one be one or many? You
15 Parme|         parts than one; and so the abstract one broken up into parts
16 Parme|           the concrete, but in the abstract; and the more abstract the
17 Parme|         the abstract; and the more abstract the idea, the more palpable
18 Parme|           we be persuaded that any abstract idea is identical with its
19 Parme|     accuracy. We doubt whether any abstract notion could stand the searching
20 Parme|        suggested, some one were to abstract simple notions of like,
21 Parme|          idea of mastership in the abstract, which is relative to the
22 Parme|         the idea of slavery in the abstract. These natures have nothing
23 Parme|        many?~True.~But now, let us abstract the one which, as we say,
24 Parme|         say, it partakes—will this abstract one be one only or many?~
25 Parme|            true.~And if we were to abstract from them in idea the very