STRANGER: Then let us not be discouraged about the future; but

now having made this discovery, let us go back to our previous

classification.

THEAETETUS: What classification?

STRANGER: We divided image-making into two sorts; the one

likeness-making, the other imaginative or phantastic.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And we said that we were uncertain in which we should place

the Sophist.

THEAETETUS: We did say so.

STRANGER: And our heads began to go round more and more when it was

asserted that there is no such thing as an image or idol or appearance,

because in no manner or time or place can there ever be such a thing as

falsehood.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And now, since there has been shown to be false speech and

false opinion, there may be imitations of real existences, and out of

this condition of the mind an art of deception may arise.

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