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Sophist – Plato

STRANGER: And what shall we call the other?

ance, and is separated from the class of Is he the philosopher or the Sophist?

phantastic which is a branch of image-making into that further division of creation, the juggling THEAETETUS: The philosopher he cannot be, for of words, a creation human, and not divine—any upon our view he is ignorant; but since he is an one who affirms the real Sophist to be of this imitator of the wise he will have a name which blood and lineage will say the very truth.

is formed by an adaptation of the word sophos.

What shall we name him? I am pretty sure that THEAETETUS: Undoubtedly.

I cannot be mistaken in terming him the true and very Sophist.

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genealogy to the other?

THEAETETUS: By all means.

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scious or dissembling section of the art of caus-

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ing self-contradiction, is an imitator of appear-173