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“I mean such things as hair, mud, dirt, or anything else which is vile and paltry”

Plato (spoken by Parmenides)

Parmenides, Stephanus 130c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Parmenides asks whether there are Forms of trivial and unpleasant things, exposing the limits of Socrates' theory.

Citation: "I mean such things as hair, mud, dirt, or anything else which is vile and paltry" — Plato, Parmenides, Stephanus 130c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-parmenides-q2)

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Quotation from Parmenides by Plato