Dialogue

 1 Parme| unlikeness in the abstract, by participation in either or both of which
 2 Parme|           The theory, then, of participation by likeness has to be given
 3 Parme|      being. For ‘to be’ is the participation of being in present time, ‘
 4 Parme|       infinite: finite through participation in the one, infinite in
 5 Parme|  opposite, and this would be a participation in one; or of two opposites,
 6 Parme| opposites, and this would be a participation in two. Thus if one exists,
 7 Parme|      they have no communion or participation in that which is not, nor
 8 Parme|      unlike, by reason of this participation?—Where is the wonder? Now
 9 Parme|     there be any other mode of participation?~There cannot be, he said.~
10 Parme|      them—what is meant by the participation of other things in the ideas,
11 Parme|         and some other mode of participation devised?~It would seem so.~
12 Parme|       there be such a thing as participation in absolute knowledge, no
13 Parme|       was becoming,’ signify a participation of past time?~Certainly.~
14 Parme|        have become,’ signify a participation of future time?~Yes.~And ‘
15 Parme|      or ‘becomes,’ signifies a participation of present time?~Certainly.~
16 Parme|      one is absolutely without participation in time, it never had become,
17 Parme|       and others, by virtue of participation in time?~How do you mean?~
18 Parme|      But to be (einai) is only participation of being in present time,
19 Parme|        and to have been is the participation of being at a past time,
20 Parme|       to be about to be is the participation of being at a future time?~
21 Parme|      in no sort or way or kind participation of being?~Quite absolutely.~
22 Parme|      And can that which has no participation in being, either assume