Plato, Sophist, section 221c

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[221c] has a name in the very likeness of the act and is called angling, which was the object of our present search.

Theaetetus
That at all events has been made perfectly clear.

Stranger
Come, then, let us use this as a pattern and try to find out what a sophist is.

Theaetetus
By all means.

Stranger
Well, then, the first question we asked was whether we must assume that the angler was just a man or was a man with an art.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
Now take this man of ours, Theaetetus.

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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