Plato, Sophist, section 224e

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[224e] and by sale, whether as mere retail trade or the sale of one's own productions, no matter which, so long as it is of the class of merchandising in knowledge, you will always, apparently, call sophistry.

Theaetetus
I must do so, for I have to follow where the argument leads.

Stranger
Let us examine further and see if the class we are now pursuing has still another aspect, of similar nature.

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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