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Logic IV. 131
[extent?][illegible?]. Not only are they substantially Aristotle's arguments, but they are almost put into the mouth of Aristotle. That is to say, it is from a person (otherwise unknown and perhaps ficticious) of the name of Aristotle, that the [answers?] are elicited. So that not only does Plato [decant] the doctrine of ideas, be he seems to acknowledge that it is Aristotle's arguments which cause his [decantation?]. In the third place, what appears directly to be refuted is not the theory of ideas, but the well known doctrine of Parmenides about the One, and the evidence is irresistable that this Parmenides represents Plato himself and the doctrine about the One stands in place of the theory of ideas; so that when Parmenides with the aid of Aristotle is represented as refuting his own doctrine, while at the same time raising difficulties in supposing it fails, what is meant to be understood is that Aristotle, under Plato's guidance, has produced a refutation of the theory of ideas, although