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Full Idea
If you regard the absolute great and the many great things in the same way, will not another appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?
Gist of Idea
If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great
Source
Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 132a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.217
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