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What do you wish to show in regard to them?Stranger
All those that I have mentioned imply a notion of division.Theaetetus
Yes.Stranger
Then since there is, accorling to my reckoning, one art involved in all of these operations, let us give it one name.Theaetetus
What shall we call it?Stranger
The art of discrimination.Theaetetus
Very well.Stranger
Now see if we can discover two divisions of this.Theaetetus
You demand quick thinking, for a boy like me.
All those that I have mentioned imply a notion of division.Theaetetus
Yes.Stranger
Then since there is, accorling to my reckoning, one art involved in all of these operations, let us give it one name.Theaetetus
What shall we call it?Stranger
The art of discrimination.Theaetetus
Very well.Stranger
Now see if we can discover two divisions of this.Theaetetus
You demand quick thinking, for a boy like me.