Plato, Sophist, section 233d

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[233d]

Theaetetus
Certainly; and I shouldn't be surprised if that were the most accurate statement we have made about him so far.

Stranger
Let us then take a clearer example to explain this.

Theaetetus
What sort of an example?

Stranger
This one; and try to pay attention and to give a very careful answer to my question.

Theaetetus
What is the question?

Stranger
If anyone should say that by virtue of a single art he knew how, not to assert or dispute, but to do and make all things—

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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