YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?

STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder's art; for we cannot say that

carding is weaving, or that the carder is a weaver.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not.

STRANGER: Again, if a person were to say that the art of making the warp

and the woof was the art of weaving, he would say what was paradoxical

and false.

YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.

STRANGER: Shall we say that the whole art of the fuller or of the mender

has nothing to do with the care and treatment of clothes, or are we to

regard all these as arts of weaving?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not.

STRANGER: And yet surely all these arts will maintain that they are

concerned with the treatment and production of clothes; they will

dispute the exclusive prerogative of weaving, and though assigning

a larger sphere to that, will still reserve a considerable field for

themselves.

Statesman