Clearly.
create a new element in them which gives to They do so then as multitudes in which the them limitation in relation to one another; one is not present?
whereas in their own nature they have no limit.
Very true.
That is clear.
And if we were to abstract from them in idea Then the others than the one, both as whole the very smallest fraction, must not that least and parts, are infinite, and also partake of limit.
fraction, if it does not partake of the one, be a Certainly.
multitude and not one?
Then they are both like and unlike one another It must.
and themselves.
And if we continue to look at the other side of How is that?
their nature, regarded simply, and in itself, will Inasmuch as they are unlimited in their own not they, as far as we see them, be unlimited in nature, they are all affected in the same way.
number?
True.
Certainly.
And inasmuch as they all partake of limit, they And yet, when each several part becomes a are all affected in the same way.
part, then the parts have a limit in relation to Of course.
the whole and to each other, and the whole in But inasmuch as their state is both limited and relation to the parts.
unlimited, they are affected in opposite ways.
Just so.
Yes.
The result to the others than the one is that And opposites are the most unlike of things.
the union of themselves and the one appears to Certainly.