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Full Idea
Any blend [mixture] which does not have measure or the nature of proportion in any way whatsoever, of necessity destroys both its ingredients and, primarily, itself. It is truly no blend at all, but a kind of unblended disaster.
Gist of Idea
Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all
Source
Plato (Philebus [c.353 BCE], 64e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.454
A Reaction
Obviously there can be chaotic mixtures, but I guess Plato is picking out mixtures about which we can say something
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| 15857 | Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all [Plato] |
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