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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: Certainly.
But are they the same as fire and snow?
Most assuredly not.
Heat is a thing different from fire, and cold is not the same with snow?
Yes.
And yet you will surely admit, that when snow, as was before said, is under
the influence of heat, they will not remain snow and heat; but at the
advance of the heat, the snow will either retire or perish?
Very true, he replied.
And the fire too at the advance of the cold will either retire or perish;
and when the fire is under the influence of the cold, they will not remain
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