Plato, Statesman, section 263c

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[263c]

Stranger
Then please go on to the next point.

Younger Socrates
What is it?

Stranger
That from which our present digression started. For I think it started when you were asked how the art of herding should be divided and said with great readiness that there were two kinds of living beings, the human race and a second one, a single class, comprising all the beasts.

Younger Socrates
True.

Stranger
And it was clear to me at the time that you removed a part and then thought that the remainder was one class

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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