THEAETETUS: Now I begin to understand, and am ready to acknowledge that

there are two kinds of production, and each of them twofold; in the

lateral division there is both a divine and a human production; in the

vertical there are realities and a creation of a kind of similitudes.

STRANGER: And let us not forget that of the imitative class the one part

was to have been likeness-making, and the other phantastic, if it could

be shown that falsehood is a reality and belongs to the class of real

being.

THEAETETUS: Yes.

STRANGER: And this appeared to be the case; and therefore now, without

hesitation, we shall number the different kinds as two.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Then, now, let us again divide the phantastic art.

THEAETETUS: Where shall we make the division?

STRANGER: There is one kind which is produced by an instrument,

and another in which the creator of the appearance is himself the

instrument.

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