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Sophist – Plato

THEAETETUS: Quite true.

there may not be yet another aspect of sophistry.

STRANGER: And there may be a third reappear-THEAETETUS: What is it?

ance of him;—for he may have settled down in a city, and may fabricate as well as buy these same STRANGER: In the acquisitive there was a sub-wares, intending to live by selling them, and he division of the combative or fighting art.

would still be called a Sophist?

THEAETETUS: There was.

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

STRANGER: Perhaps we had better divide it.

STRANGER: Then that part of the acquisitive art which exchanges, and of exchange which either THEAETETUS: What shall be the divisions?

sells a man’s own productions or retails those of others, as the case may be, and in either way STRANGER: There shall be one division of the sells the knowledge of virtue, you would again competitive, and another of the pugnacious.

term Sophistry?

THEAETETUS: Very good.

THEAETETUS: I must, if I am to keep pace with the argument.

STRANGER: That part of the pugnacious which is a contest of bodily strength may be properly STRANGER: Let us consider once more whether called by some such name as violent.