True.

  But if it be not altered it cannot be moved?

  Certainly not.

  Nor can we say that it stands, if it is nowhere; for that which
stands must always be in one and the same spot?

  Of course.

  Then we must say that the one which is not never stands still and
never moves?

  Neither.

  Nor is there any existing thing which can be attributed to it; for
if there had been, it would partake of being?

  That is clear.

  And therefore neither smallness, nor greatness, nor equality, can be
attributed to it?

  No.

  Nor yet likeness nor difference, either in relation to itself or
to others?

  Clearly not.

  Well, and if nothing should be attributed to it, can other things be
attributed to it?

  Certainly not.

  And therefore other things can neither be like or unlike, the
same, or different in relation to it?

  They cannot.

  Nor can what is not, be anything, or be this thing, or be related to
or the attribute of this or that or other, or be past, present, or
future. Nor can knowledge, or opinion, or perception, or expression,
or name, or any other thing that is, have any concern with it?

  No.

  Then the one that is not has no condition of any kind?

  Such appears to be the conclusion.

  Yet once more; if one is not, what becomes of the others? Let us
determine that.

  Yes; let us determine that.

  The others must surely be; for if they, like the one, were not, we
could not be now speaking of them.

  True.

  But to speak of the others implies difference-the terms "other"
and "different" are synonymous?

  True.

  Other means other than other, and different, different from the
different?

  Yes.

  Then, if there are to be others, there is something than which
they will be other?

  Certainly.

  And what can that be?-for if the one is not, they will not be
other than the one.

  They will not.

  Then they will be other than each other; for the only remaining
alternative is that they are other than nothing.

  True.

  And they are each other than one another, as being plural and not
singular; for if one is not, they cannot be singular but every
particle of them is infinite in number; and even if a person takes
that which appears to be the smallest fraction, this, which seemed
one, in a moment evanesces into many, as in a dream, and from being
the smallest becomes very great, in comparison with the fractions into
which it is split up?

  Very true.

  And in such particles the others will be other than one another,
if others are, and the one is not?