THEAETETUS: Quite possible.

STRANGER: And we have already admitted, in what preceded, that the

Sophist was lurking in one of the divisions of the likeness-making art?

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: Let us, then, renew the attempt, and in dividing any class,

always take the part to the right, holding fast to that which holds the

Sophist, until we have stripped him of all his common properties, and

reached his difference or peculiar. Then we may exhibit him in his true

nature, first to ourselves and then to kindred dialectical spirits.

THEAETETUS: Very good.

STRANGER: You may remember that all art was originally divided by us

into creative and acquisitive.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in the acquisitive

class, in the subdivisions of hunting, contests, merchandize, and the

like.

THEAETETUS: Very true.

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