Sophist – Plato
STRANGER: I mean to say that you should make STRANGER: I suppose that we, and the other ania vertical division of production or invention, as mals, and the elements out of which things are you have already made a lateral one.
made—fire, water, and the like—are known by us to be each and all the creation and work of God.
THEAETETUS: I have done so.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: Then, now, there are in all four parts or segments—two of them have reference to us STRANGER: And there are images of them, and are human, and two of them have reference which are not them, but which correspond to to the gods and are divine.
them; and these are also the creation of a wonderful skill.
THEAETETUS: True.
THEAETETUS: What are they?
STRANGER: And, again, in the division which was supposed to be made in the other way, one STRANGER: The appearances which spring up part in each subdivision is the making of the of themselves in sleep or by day, such as a shadow things themselves, but the two remaining parts when darkness arises in a fire, or the reflection may be called the making of likenesses; and so which is produced when the light in bright and the productive art is again divided into two parts.
smooth objects meets on their surface with an external light, and creates a perception the op-THEAETETUS: Tell me the divisions once more.
posite of our ordinary sight.