THEAETETUS: Very good.

STRANGER: Let us begin by asking whether he is a man having art or not

having art, but some other power.

THEAETETUS: He is clearly a man of art.

STRANGER: And of arts there are two kinds?

THEAETETUS: What are they?

STRANGER: There is agriculture, and the tending of mortal creatures,

and the art of constructing or moulding vessels, and there is the art of

imitation--all these may be appropriately called by a single name.

THEAETETUS: What do you mean? And what is the name?

STRANGER: He who brings into existence something that did not exist

before is said to be a producer, and that which is brought into

existence is said to be produced.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And all the arts which were just now mentioned are

characterized by this power of producing?

Sophist