And must they not be the same and yet differ-neither many nor one.
ent from one another, and in contact with them-They are not.
selves, although they are separated, and having Nor do they appear either as one or many.
every sort of motion, and every sort of rest, and Why not?
becoming and being destroyed, and in neither Because the others have no sort or manner or state, and the like, all which things may be eas-way of communion with any sort of not-being, ily enumerated, if the one is not and the many nor can anything which is not, be connected with are?
any of the others; for that which is not has no Most true.
parts.
2.bb. Once more, let us go back to the begin-True.
ning, and ask if the one is not, and the others of Nor is there an opinion or any appearance of the one are, what will follow.
not-being in connexion with the others, nor is Let us ask that question.
not-being ever in any way attributed to the othIn the first place, the others will not be one?
ers.
Impossible.
No.
Nor will they be many; for if they were many Then if one is not, there is no conception of one would be contained in them. But if no one of any of the others either as one or many; for you them is one, all of them are nought, and there-cannot conceive the many without the one.
fore they will not be many.
You cannot.
True.
Then if one is not, the others neither are, nor If there be no one in the others, the others are can be conceived to be either one or many?