Dialogue

 1 Parme|         said Parmenides, ‘do you think that the abstract ideas
 2 Parme|        your own distinction?’ ‘I think that there are such ideas.’ ‘
 3 Parme|    thoughts, must not all things think? Or can thought be without
 4 Parme|         yet.’ ‘What is that?’ ‘I think we must admit that absolute
 5 Parme| certainly do not see my way.’ ‘I think,’ said Parmenides, ‘that
 6 Parme|          ideas.’ ‘Yes; because I think that in visible objects
 7 Parme|    things nor small, and he will think less of the opinions of
 8 Parme|         can all this be true? ‘I think not.’~1.b. Let us, however,
 9 Parme|         Zeno, do you not further think that there is an idea of
10 Parme|      partake of them? and do you think that there is an idea of
11 Parme|          which Zeno mentioned?~I think that there are such ideas,
12 Parme|          disturbed, and begin to think that there is nothing without
13 Parme|         be, he said.~Then do you think that the whole idea is one,
14 Parme|         not that your meaning?~I think so.~And would you say that
15 Parme|    thoughts, and that all things think; or that they are thoughts
16 Parme|  Socrates.~In the first place, I think, Socrates, that you, or
17 Parme|          us?~It would seem so.~I think that there is a stranger
18 Parme|           said Parmenides; and I think that this arises, Socrates,
19 Parme|           said Parmenides; but I think that you should go a step
20 Parme|         be true about the one?~I think not.~1.b. Suppose, now,
21 Parme|         one only or many?~One, I think.~Let us see:—Must not the
22 Parme|      them?~There is.~And can you think of anything else which is
23 Parme|        so all being, whatever we think of, must be broken up into