Dialogue

 1 Parme|       abstract ideas of likeness, unity, and the rest, exist apart
 2 Parme|         simplest of all notions, ‘unity’; you cannot even assert
 3 Parme|           same difficulties about Unity and Being are raised in
 4 Parme|           to prove indirectly the unity of the Idea in the multiplicity
 5 Parme|      therefore the others have no unity, nor plurality, nor duality,
 6 Parme|   division. And they will have no unity or number, but only a semblance
 7 Parme|           but only a semblance of unity and number; and the least
 8 Parme|          abstraction of undefined unity, answering to the Hegelian ‘
 9 Parme|           have various degrees of unity and plurality. But in whatever
10 Parme|           the human mind in which Unity and Being occupied the attention
11 Parme|         two idols in particular, ‘Unity’ and ‘Being,’ which had
12 Parme|          of contradiction and the unity of knowledge are asserted;
13 Parme|          Plato has the notions of Unity and Being. These weeds of
14 Parme|    existence of universals or the unity under which they are comprehended.
15 Parme| overwhelming evidence. You affirm unity, he denies plurality. And
16 Parme|         of them to be an absolute unity. He who hears what may be
17 Parme|          whole, being one perfect unity framed out of all—of this
18 Parme|         or have in themselves any unity?~There is not.~Nor are the
19 Parme|           but smaller, because no unity can be conceived of any
20 Parme|           be conceived of without unity?~Certainly.~And such being