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Single Idea 213

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking]

Full Idea

Just as day is in many places at once, but not separated from itself, so each idea might be in all its participants at once.

Gist of Idea

Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 131b)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.215