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Logic IV. 76.

For adopting this opinion that there is someting behind the grammatical abstraction that is not a mere matter of words and Plato asks us to mark it well: [foreign text]. is this that it appears that not only absolute essences they are contrary do not receive one another, but further whatever although not contrary to one another yet eternally contain the contraries are found not to receive that idea which would be contrary to the essence in them but as its advent are either destroyed or displaced: [foreign text]. 104BC. For example two is not contrary to three but two has eveness three oddness and three cannot become even. Plato seems