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we don't really need to go there.
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Before the dialogue ends though,
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there's one further argument, which I'll dub,
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"the argument from essential properties."
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Now again, it's important to bear in mind
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as we try to make sense of this passage
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that Plato is writing at a time
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when we don't have, we didn't have,
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all the conceptual apparatus that we have nowadays.
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We stand on his shoulders;
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we've inherited some of the distinctions
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that he was the first to try to put into play.