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Logiv IV 165.

Then, says the pseudo-Socrates, it appears that the Aphrodite of Philebus is not identical with the good. It also appears, retorts Philebus, that your Nous is not identical with the good (22C). Perhaps not mine, says Socrates, but with the truthful and divine Nous, it is different. Here he touches on the two ethics, for a moment; but he at once flies off again, or rather, drops this branch of the subject.

He now assumes four categories. His style here is curious. "Now let us divide all things that are into two or, if you please, into three. You should say on what ground. Let us take some up at the reasons (?) just mentioned. What ones? We were substantially saying that God has shown the Indefinite of things and the Limit. Quite so. We will take these two of the species for two, and of the third a unity compounded of them both. But I am, it would seem, a ridiculous person in dividing things according to species and in enumerating them. What do you mean, my good friend? I seem to need a fourth genus. Tell us what it is. Consider the cause [principle]

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