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in regard to things which will exist, if the One is not. [For?], if they are not the One, they are other than the one; but nothing can be in the relation of otherness to anything which is not. Is not this magnificent reasoning? It is a fair specimen of the whole.

8th, By similar reasoning he refutes all he proved under the seventh head; and this brings the dialogue to a sudden close.

Although the matter of the [this?] dialogue is such to [carry?] [itself?], it is historically of great interest. There ought to be no doubt that this [illegible?] by Plato as his decantation of the doctrine of ideas, which he held for only ten years of this half century of literary activity. The evidence of this is, in the first place, that the dialogue stylometrically the latest of those that uphold that doctrine, the Phaedrus has only about one chance in 4 of being later than the Parmenides, while all the latter dialogues, of which there are six, repeat the doctrine and the dialogue next [proceeding?] the