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266 Str. We must remember that there were to be two parts of the image-making class, the likeness-making and the fantastic, if we should find that falsehood really existed and was in the class of real being.

266 Theaet. Yes, there were.

266 Str. But we found that falsehood does exist, and therefore we shall now, without any doubts, number the kinds of image-making art as two, shall we not?

266 Theaet. Yes.

267 Str. Let us, then, again bisect the fantastic art.

267 Theaet. How?

267 Str. One kind is that produced by instruments, the other that in which the producer of the appearance offers himself as the instrument.

267 Theaet. What do you mean?

267 Str. When anyone, by employing his own person as his instrument, makes his own figure or voice seem similar to yours, that kind of fantastic art is called mimetic.

267 Theaet. Yes.

267 Str. Let us, then, classify this part under the name of mimetic art; but as for all the rest, let us be so self-indulgent as to let it go and leave it for someone else to unify and name appropriately.

267 Theaet. Very well, let us adopt that classification and let the other part go.

267 Str. But it is surely worth while to consider, Theaetetus, that the mimetic art also has two parts; and I will tell you why.

267 Theaet. Please do.

267 Str. Some who imitate do so with knowledge of that which they imitate, and others without such knowledge. And yet what division can we imagine more complete than that which separates knowledge and ignorance?

267 Theaet. None.

267 Str. The example I just gave was of imitation by those who know, was it not? For a man who imitates you would know you and your figure.

267 Theaet. Of course.

267 Str. But what of the figure of justice and, in a word, of virtue in general? Are there not many who have no knowledge of it, but only a sort of opinion, and who try with the greatest eagerness to make this which they themselves think is virtue seem to exist within them, by imitating it in acts and words to the best of their ability?

267 Theaet. Yes, there are very many such people.

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