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Stranger
I am considering, and I think I can see two classes I see one who can dissemble in long speeches in public before a multitude, and the other who does it in private in short speeches and forces the person who converses with him to contradict himself.Theaetetus
You are quite right.Stranger
And what name shall we give to him who makes the longer speeches? Statesman or popular orator?Theaetetus
Popular orator.Stranger
And what shall we call the other? Philosopher or sophist?Theaetetus
We cannot very well call him philosopher, since by our hypothesis
I am considering, and I think I can see two classes I see one who can dissemble in long speeches in public before a multitude, and the other who does it in private in short speeches and forces the person who converses with him to contradict himself.Theaetetus
You are quite right.Stranger
And what name shall we give to him who makes the longer speeches? Statesman or popular orator?Theaetetus
Popular orator.Stranger
And what shall we call the other? Philosopher or sophist?Theaetetus
We cannot very well call him philosopher, since by our hypothesis