And do we not say that the others being other than How do you mean?
the one are not one and have no part in the one?
If the one were greater or less than the others, True.
or the others greater or less than the one, they Then they have no number, if they have no one would not be greater or less than each other in in them?
virtue of their being the one and the others; but, Of course not.
if in addition to their being what they are they Then the others are neither one nor two, nor had equality, they would be equal to one another, are they called by the name of any number?
or if the one had smallness and the others great-No.
ness, or the one had greatness and the others One, then, alone is one, and two do not exist?
smallness—whichever kind had greatness would Clearly not.
be greater, and whichever had smallness would And if there are not two, there is no contact?
be smaller?
There is not.
Certainly.
Then neither does the one touch the others, Then there are two such ideas as greatness and nor the others the one, if there is no contact?
smallness; for if they were not they could not be Certainly not.
opposed to each other and be present in that For all which reasons the one touches and does which is.
not touch itself and the others?
How could they?
True.
If, then, smallness is present in the one it will Further—is the one equal and unequal to itself be present either in the whole or in a part of the and others?
whole?