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2017-09-29 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides - hyp5 - Homogeneously Separate

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: hyp5 Sections: 159b 159c 159d Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina, Eldar, Alex P1 / 159b The biggest problem in the 5th is to keep a straight face while you read the 1st line.. Does this first line indicate a different 'One'? Or not? Does function determine nature? P2 Similarity with the 3rd and 4th. P3 χωρὶς - 'parallel'? separate, distinct? Can 'others' be parallel to 'one'? Barbara: lexicon: different, apart-from (locationally, spatially). In fact, the 'ideas' are described by Socrates in the opening argument as choris - separate PG: When things are separate from each other, it does not follow (necessarily) that they are parallel B: Here already there is more separation, not participation or overlap P4 /159c Because there's no way to exist in some different way: by being other than the One or by being other than the others. No process (yet) for the others to come into being. They are not specified here as being generated. They're just different than the one. DC: So the one is allowed to be different from the others, and the others are allowed to be different from each other and the one. So, two kinds of different? (I.e., add others differe

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