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2015-10-16 NSPRM Parmenides plg - Socrates, Did You Separate out Self from the Other Ideas Which Are Participable?

Dialogue(s): parmenides;republic Chapters: plg book7 Sections: 130b 130c 130d 130e 131a 524d 524e 525a Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Kevin, Brad, JulieP Can you separate Likeness from Likeness itself? Is there an idea of Likeness? Could you use 'itself' in respect to that word? I.e., does it have a self? What happens when you go from 'like' to 'likeness'? (giving it a substance) Is there such a thing as 'good'? 'Goodness'? What does the -ness add? PG reads from Republic (transl: Rouse) 524d 524e 525a : introducing -ness and the realm of the mind, and One as in the latter, and not the former. PG: that is not obvious. but the transition to the question of what after all is the one pre-supposes that you see something about the '-ness'. He doesn't make the transition. he doesn't say, hey, if you're in counting, each thing you count is a one-ness, so the thing that must be common to it is a one-ness. but He doesn't do that. he perhaps skipped it. because -nesses, you're in the mind. you're not counting. You can't go to counting to ask what is the one. you're in the realm of the mind. you can't be out in the realm of particulars. If he went into 'One-ness', you'd be making a

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