1 Cf. Aristot.Met. 1011 b 30-31 and Eth. Nic. 1154 a 30διὰ τὸ παρὰ τὸ ἐναντίον φαίνεσθαι.
2 The argument from the parallel of body and mind here belongs to what we have called confirmation. Cf. What Plato Said, p. 528, on Phaedo 78 B, The figurative use of repletion and nutrition is not to be pressed in proof of contradictions with the Philebus or Gorgias. Cf. Matthew v. 6 “Hunger and thirst after righteousness.”
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