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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: less than the one, they would not be greater or less than each other in
virtue of their being the one and the others; but, if in addition to their
being what they are they had equality, they would be equal to one another,
or if the one had smallness and the others greatness, or the one had
greatness and the others smallness--whichever kind had greatness would be
greater, and whichever had smallness would be smaller?
Certainly.
Then there are two such ideas as greatness and smallness; for if they were
not they could not be opposed to each other and be present in that which
is.
How could they?
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