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Single Idea 232

[filed under theme 2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites ]

Full Idea

Opposites are as unlike as possible.

Gist of Idea

Opposites are as unlike as possible

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 159a)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.307

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The 5 ideas with the same theme [concepts held to be totally opposed to each other]:

416	Beautiful harmony comes from things that are in opposition to one another [Heraclitus]

425	A thing can have opposing tensions but be in harmony, like a lyre [Heraclitus]

232	Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]

627	If everything is made of opposites, are the opposed things made of opposites? [Aristotle]

628	Not everything is composed of opposites; what, for example, is the opposite of matter? [Aristotle]