Plato, Sophist, section 232d

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[232d]

Stranger
And how about laws and public affairs in general? Do they not promise to make men able to argue about those?

Theaetetus
Yes, for nobody, to speak broadly, would attend their classes if they did not make that promise.

Stranger
However in all arts jointly and severally what the professional ought to answer to every opponent is written down somewhere and published that he who will may learn.

Theaetetus
You seem to refer to the text-books of Protagoras

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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