Plato's first argument is the argument from opposites, whereby he states that every single thing in this world has an opposite, whether that be happy and sad or dark and light, he strongly believes that everything that is a physical event must have an opposite, for example, big things would not be "bigger" if there was no small things to be "smaller." ... However, Plato does not make himself clear as when he first talks of opposites he talks about graded opposites, where something can be bigger or smaller than something else, but as he moves on he begins to speak of absolute opposites; ...
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