Dialogue

 1 Parme|    and derived from external objects as well as transcending
 2 Parme|    ideas have parts, and the objects partake of a part of them
 3 Parme| venture to affirm that great objects have a portion only of greatness
 4 Parme|       or that small or equal objects are small or equal because
 5 Parme|    as follows: you see great objects pervaded by a common form
 6 Parme|     themselves only; and the objects which are named after them,
 7 Parme|      in reference to visible objects, but only in relation to
 8 Parme|      I think that in visible objects you may easily show any
 9 Parme|     one touch the other. Two objects are required to make one
10 Parme|      make one contact; three objects make two contacts; and all
11 Parme|    two contacts; and all the objects in the world, if placed
12 Parme|   many contacts as there are objects, less one. But if one only
13 Parme|      be no great or small in objects, but greatness and smallness
14 Parme|       as they are applied to objects of thought or objects of
15 Parme|     to objects of thought or objects of sense—to number, time,
16 Parme|   generalization of external objects) is now superseded in the
17 Parme|     correlation of forces or objects. We see that the term ‘law’
18 Parme|    substratum apart from the objects which we see, and we acknowledge
19 Parme|    shown to exist in visible objects.~While Socrates was speaking,
20 Parme|     distinct from the actual objects with which we come into
21 Parme|    You see a number of great objects, and when you look at them
22 Parme|     but only in reference to objects of thought, and to what