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Relations in Plato’s Phaedo

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102b3’ If you say that that is so, then whenever you say that Simmias is larger than Socrates but smaller than Phaedo, you mean then, don’t you, that both things are in Simmias, largeness and smallness?’ ‘I do.’

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Jetli, P. (1998). Relations in Plato’s Phaedo . In: Orilia, F., Rapaport, W.J. (eds) Thought, Language, and Ontology. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5052-1_13

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