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Single Idea 15849
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Full Idea
In 'Parmenides' it is argued that a part cannot be part of a many, but must be part of something one.
Gist of Idea
Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not
Source
report of Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 157c) by Verity Harte - Plato on Parts and Wholes 3.2
Book Ref
Harte,Verity: 'Plato on Parts and Wholes' [OUP 2002], p.123
A Reaction
This looks like the right way to go with the term 'part'. We presuppose a unity before we even talk of its parts, so we can't get into contradictions and paradoxes about their relationships.
Related Idea
Idea 15850
Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
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from 'Parmenides'
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic
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Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations
[Plato, by Ryle]
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made
[Russell on Plato]
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many
[Plato, by Plotinus]
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16151
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work
[Plato, by Frede,M]
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15846
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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210
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt
[Plato]
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211
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well
[Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it
[Plato]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once
[Plato]
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214
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great
[Plato]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought
[Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea
[Plato]
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217
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress)
[Plato]
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218
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation
[Plato]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute
[Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave
[Plato]
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221
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us
[Plato]
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222
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Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it
[Plato]
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223
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion
[Plato]
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224
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect
[Plato]
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one
[Plato]
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225
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The unlimited has no shape and is endless
[Plato]
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration
[Plato]
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One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being
[Plato]
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Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part
[Plato]
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227
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name
[Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things
[Plato]
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229
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become
[Plato]
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many
[Plato]
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231
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Everything partakes of the One in some way
[Plato]
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15849
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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15851
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Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form
[Plato]
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232
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Opposites are as unlike as possible
[Plato]
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233
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Some things do not partake of the One
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234
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We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it
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