Dialogue

 1 Intro|     national decline of genius, unity, political force, which
 2 Intro|       relation of plurality and unity, which were supposed to
 3 Intro|    predication; 4. they go from unity to plurality, without passing
 4 Intro| analysis of the simple ideas of Unity or Being. In the Sophist
 5 Intro|         deny both plurality and unity? You, Theaetetus, have the
 6 Intro|      mean by their assertion of unity, or by their combinations
 7 Intro|       has parts is not one, for unity has no parts. Is being,
 8 Intro|        to consider, such as the unity of opposites, the conception
 9 Intro|         Hegelian dialectic.~The unity of opposites was the crux
10 Intro|        would deny.~The Platonic unity of differences or opposites
11 Intro|        the Hegelian concrete or unity of abstractions. In the
12 Intro|        abstractions in a higher unity: the ordinary mechanism
13 Intro|         bases his system on the unity of opposites, although in
14 Intro|       One of these forms is the unity of opposites. Abstractions
15  Soph|       not,’ do we not attribute unity?~THEAETETUS: Manifestly.~
16  Soph|       it’ would imply a form of unity.~THEAETETUS: Quite true.~
17  Soph|     into it either existence or unity or plurality.~THEAETETUS:
18  Soph|    image, as though it were the unity under which they were all
19  Soph|  alternation of them; peace and unity sometimes prevailing under
20  Soph|         that he who asserts the unity of being will find a difficulty
21  Soph|       that there is nothing but unity, is surely ridiculous?~THEAETETUS:
22  Soph|         one, and being absolute unity, will represent a mere name.~
23  Soph|       may have the attribute of unity in all the parts, and in
24  Soph|    condition cannot be absolute unity?~THEAETETUS: Why not?~STRANGER:
25  Soph|         it has the attribute of unity? Or shall we say that being
26  Soph|         having the attribute of unity, and there be such a thing
27  Soph|     whole is at rest, either as unity or in many forms: and he