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we shall know that
it was1 not the same
thing functioning but a plurality.” “Very
well.” “Consider, then, what I am saying.”
“Say on,” he replied. “Is it possible for the
same thing at the same time in the same respect to be at rest2 and in motion?”
“By no means.” “Let us have our understanding
still more precise, lest as we proceed we become involved in dispute. If
anyone should say of a man standing still but moving his hands and head that
the same man is at the same time at rest and in motion we should not, I take
it, regard that as the right way of expressing it, but rather that a
part3 of him is at rest
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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