since an all-encompassing One embraces both things that are blue and other things that aren’t, it can’t be either entirely blue or not-blue itself. Nor can it be composed of things being blue and not-blue, since in the latter case it would be many things; it wouldn’t be “one” anymore. Plato used different characteristics, but the logic remains the same: “the one can neither be the same, nor other, either in relation to itself or other.”
