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161. If we hold that the unit has no magnitude—and this is required by what Aristotle calls the argument from dichotomy, —then everything must be infinitely small. Nothing made up of units without magnitude can itself have any magnitude. On the other hand, if we insist that the units of which things are built up are something and not nothing, we must hold that everything is infinitely great.