Plato, Theaetetus, section 145a

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[145a] we must consider whether he who speaks is a painter, or not.

Theaetetus
I think we must.

Socrates
Well, is Theodorus a painter?

Theaetetus
Not so far as I know.

Socrates
Nor a geometrician, either?

Theaetetus
Oh yes, decidedly, Socrates.

Socrates
And an astronomer, and an arithmetician, and a musician, and in general an educated man?

Theaetetus
I think so.

Socrates
Well then, if he says, either in praise or blame, that we have some physical resemblance, it is not especially worth while to pay attention to him.

Theaetetus
Perhaps not.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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