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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: when more than once, is it something else which you mention? or must it
always be the same thing of which you speak, whether you utter the name
once or more than once?
Of course it is the same.
And is not 'other' a name given to a thing?
Certainly.
Whenever, then, you use the word 'other,' whether once or oftener, you name
that of which it is the name, and to no other do you give the name?
True.
Then when we say that the others are other than the one, and the one other
than the others, in repeating the word 'other' we speak of that nature to
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