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Full Idea
With what physical faculty do we perceive being and not-being, similarity and dissimilarity, identity and difference, oneness and many, odd and even and other maths, ….fineness and goodness?
Gist of Idea
With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities?
Source
Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 185d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.88