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[57b] and therefore it has introduced the present subject and is considering whether there is one kind of knowledge purer than another, as one pleasure is purer than another.

Protarchus
That is very clear; it was evidently introduced with that object.

Socrates
Well, had not the discussion already found in what preceded that the various arts had various purposes and various degrees of exactness?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And after having given an art a single name in what has preceded, thereby making us think that it was a single art,


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