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there's a part that has to do with appetite,
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desires for food, drink, sex, what have you.
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Plato elsewhere argues the soul is not simple at all.
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So perhaps it shouldn't shock us
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that the argument he's sketching here
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for the simplicity of the soul based on the changeless,
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invisible nature of the soul--
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perhaps it shouldn't shock us
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that that argument doesn't succeed after all.
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Finally, although I gave Plato,
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previously, the assumption that
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if only we could establish the simplicity of the soul,