Plato, Sophist, section 225b

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[225b] shall we give to the contests of words?

Theaetetus
No other.

Stranger
But controversy must be divided into two kinds.

Theaetetus
How?

Stranger
Whenever long speeches are opposed by long speeches on questions of justice and injustice in public, that is forensic controversy.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
But that which is carried on among private persons and is cut up into little bits by means of questions and their answers, we are accustomed to call argumentation, are we not?

Theaetetus
We are.

Stranger
And that part of argumentation which deals

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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