As I was lying in bed after my supper – which I always do,
if I can – it occurred to me to look at Jowett’s translation of Parmenides 132c9-11; and so I did, when
I got up:
‘Then, said Parmenides, if you say that everything else
participates in the ideas, must you not say either that everything is made up
of thoughts, and that all things think; or that they are thoughts but have no
thought?’
As it appears, Cornford’s and Allen’s ‘two possibilities’
interpretation goes back to Jowett.
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