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you could use a dirk to trim vine branches and a knife
and many other instruments.” “Certainly.”
“But nothing so well, I take it, as a pruning-knife fashioned for
this purpose.” “That is true.” “Must
we not then assume this to be the work or function of that?”
“We must.”“You
will now, then, I fancy, better apprehend the meaning of my question when I
asked whether that is not the work of a thing which it only or it better
than anything else can perform.” “Well,” he
said, “I do understand, and agree
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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