Plato
Phaedo
Penguin Classics. Translated by Christopher Rowe.
74b-84b
'Well, then,' said Socrates, 'see what you think of the following. We say, I suppose, that there's something that's equal – I don't mean a stick that's equal to a stick, or a stone that's equal to a stone, or anything like that, but some further thing over and above all of these, that is, the equal itself: are we to say that something of the sort exists,1 or not?'
'Zeus! Yes,' said Simmias; 'indeed we are, most emphatically…
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