the young Socrates asked Parmenides himself: “If someone should demonstrate that I am one thing and many, what’s astonishing about that? He will say, when he wants to show that I’m many, that my right side is different from my left, and my front from my back, and likewise with my upper and lower parts…. But when he wants to show that I’m one, he will say I’m one person among the seven of us, because I also partake of oneness. Thus he will show that both are true.”[19]
