Then in what way, Socrates, will all things participate in the ideas, if they are unable to participate in them either as parts or WHOLES ? PARMENIDES
But we said that things which are neither parts nor WHOLES of one another, nor other than one another, will be the same with one another : — so we said ? PARMENIDES
Str. Then, surely, he who can divide rightly is able to see clearly one form pervading a scattered multitude, and many different forms contained under one higher form ; and again, one form knit together into a single whole and pervading many such WHOLES, and many forms, existing only in separation and isolation. This is the knowledge of classes which determines where they can have communion with one another and where not. SOPHIST