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you raise an objection and it often seems as though Plato himself,
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whether or not he explicitly states the objection,
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seems aware of the objection,
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because he'll go on to say something that is responsive to it.
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And again, that makes sense
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if you think of these dialogues as a kind of pedagogical tool
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to help you get better at philosophizing.
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So the very next argument that Plato turns to can be viewed,
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I think, as responding to this unstated objection--
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well, I stated it,
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but Plato doesn't state it in the dialogue--
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the worry that even if the soul was one of the parts,