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For example, in the Ideal number 10 there are ten units, and 10 is composed both of these and of two 5’s. Now since the Ideal 10 is not a chance number,I think Ross’s interpretation of this passage must be right. The Ideal 10 is a unique number, and the numbers contained in it must be ideal and unique; therefore the two 5’s must be specifically different, and so must their units—which contradicts the view under discussion. and is not composed of chance 5’s, any more than of chance units, the units in this number 10 must be different;
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for if they are not different, the 5’s of which the 10 is composed will not be different; but since these are different, the units must be different too. Now if the units are different, will there or will there not be other 5’s in this 10, and not only the two? If there are not, the thing is absurdi.e., it is only reasonable to suppose that other 5’s might be made up out of different combinations of the units.; whereas if there are, what sort of 10 will be composed of them? for there is no other 10 in 10 besides the 10 itself:
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Again, it must also be true that 4 is not composed of chance 2’s. For according to them the indeterminate dyad, receiving the determinate dyad, made two dyads; for it was capable of duplicating that which it received.Cf. Introduction.
