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Quotation from Parmenides by Plato

“Then may we not sum up the argument in a word and say truly: If one is not, then nothing is”

Plato (spoken by Parmenides)

Parmenides, Stephanus 166c (final deduction), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The closing summary of the deductions on the not-being of the One, just before the dialogue's paradoxical last sentence.

Citation: "Then may we not sum up the argument in a word and say truly: If one is not, then nothing is" — Plato, Parmenides, Stephanus 166c (final deduction), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-parmenides-q7)

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