How do you mean?
I may take as an illustration the case of names: You give a name
to a thing?
Yes.
And you may say the name once or oftener?
Yes.
And when you say it once, you mention that of which it is the
name? and when more than once, is it something else which you mention?
or must it always be the same thing of which you speak, whether you
utter the name once or more than once?
Of course it is the same.
And is not "other" a name given to a thing?
Certainly.
Whenever, then, you use the word "other," whether once or oftener,
you name that of which it is the name, and to no other do you give the
name?
True.
Then when we say that the others are other than the one, and the one
other than the others, in repeating the word "other" we speak of
that nature to which the name is applied, and of no other?
Quite true.
Then the one which is other than others, and the other which is
other than the one, in that the word "other" is applied to both,
will be in the same condition; and that which is in the same condition
is like?
Yes.
Then in virtue of the affection by which the one is other than the
others, every thing will be like every thing, for every thing is other
than every thing.
True.
Again, the like is opposed to the unlike?
Yes.
And the other to the same?
True again.
And the one was also shown to be the same with the others?
Yes.
And to be, the same with the others is the opposite of being other
than the others?
Certainly.
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