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Our main difficulty with Plato’s method of division is that we don’t know what is being divided or what it is being divided into. And until we know these things, we don’t know very much about the method of division.
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Cohen, S.M. (1973). Plato’s Method of Division. In: Moravcsik, J.M.E. (eds) Patterns in Plato’s Thought. Synthese Historical Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2545-4_10
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