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that the soul is one of the recycled parts.
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So it seems to me "The argument from recycling,"
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as I call it, is not successful either.
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Now, as I say, many times when you read the dialogue,
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this or other dialogues by Plato,
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it seems as though he's fully cognizant of the objections
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that at least an attentive reader will raise
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about earlier stages of the argument.
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Because sometimes the best way to
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understand a later argument is to see it as responding
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to the weaknesses of earlier arguments.
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And I think that's pretty clearly