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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: admitted and approved the statement, that of the first elements out of
which all other things are compounded there could be no definition, because
each of them when taken by itself is uncompounded; nor can one rightly
attribute to them the words 'being' or 'this,' because they are alien and
inappropriate words, and for this reason the letters or elements were
indefinable and unknown?
THEAETETUS: I remember.
SOCRATES: And is not this also the reason why they are simple and
indivisible? I can see no other.
THEAETETUS: No other reason can be given.
SOCRATES: Then is not the syllable in the same case as the elements or
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