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Σοφιστής Plato
224 Str. No other. Come then, let us now summarize the matter by saying that sophistry has appeared a second time as that part of acquisitive art, art of exchange, of trafficking, of merchandising, of soul-merchandising which deals in words and knowledge, and trades in virtue.
224 Theaet. Very well.
224 Str. But there is a third case: If a man settled down here in town and proposed to make his living by selling these same wares of knowledge, buying some of them and making others himself, you would, I fancy, not call him by any other name than that which you used a moment ago.
224 Theaet. Certainly not.
224 Str. Then also that part of acquisitive art which proceeds by exchange, and by sale, whether as mere retail trade or the sale of one’s own productions, no matter which, so long as it is of the class of merchandising in knowledge, you will always, apparently, call sophistry.
224 Theaet. I must do so, for I have to follow where the argument leads.
224 Str. Let us examine further and see if the class we are now pursuing has still another aspect, of similar nature.
225 Theaet. Of what nature?
225 Str. We agreed that fighting was a division of acquisitive art.
225 Theaet. Yes, we did.
225 Str. Then it is quite fitting to divide it into two parts.
225 Theaet. Tell what the parts are.
225 Str. Let us call one part of it the competitive and the other the pugnacious.
225 Theaet. Agreed.
225 Str. Then it is reasonable and fitting to give to that part of the pugnacious which consists of bodily contests some such name as violent.
225 Theaet. Yes.
225 Str. And what other name than controversy shall we give to the contests of words?
225 Theaet. No other.
225 Str. But controversy must be divided into two kinds.
225 Theaet. How?
225 Str. Whenever long speeches are opposed by long speeches on questions of justice and injustice in public, that is forensic controversy.
225 Theaet. Yes.
225 Str. But that which is carried on among private persons and is cut up into little bits by means of questions and their answers, we are accustomed to call argumentation, are we not?
225 Theaet. We are.

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