Sophist – Plato
THEAETETUS: Yes; and the images as well as the a human production; in the vertical there are creation are equally the work of a divine hand.
realities and a creation of a kind of similitudes.
STRANGER: And what shall we say of human STRANGER: And let us not forget that of the art? Do we not make one house by the art of imitative class the one part was to have been building, and another by the art of drawing, likeness-making, and the other phantastic, if it which is a sort of dream created by man for those could be shown that falsehood is a reality and who are awake?
belongs to the class of real being.
THEAETETUS: Quite true.
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: And other products of human cre-STRANGER: And this appeared to be the case; ation are also twofold and go in pairs; there is and therefore now, without hesitation, we shall the thing, with which the art of making the thing number the different kinds as two.
is concerned, and the image, with which imitation is concerned.
THEAETETUS: True.
THEAETETUS: Now I begin to understand, and STRANGER: Then, now, let us again divide the am ready to acknowledge that there are two phantastic art.
kinds of production, and each of them twofold; in the lateral division there is both a divine and THEAETETUS: Where shall we make the division?