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As, for example,
the flute-player reports to the flute-maker which flutes respond and serve
rightly in flute-playing, and will order the kind that must be made, and the
other will obey and serve him.” “Of course.”
“The one, then, possessing knowledge, reports about the goodness
or the badness of the flutes, and the other, believing, will make
them.” “Yes.” “Then in respect of
the same implement the maker will have right belief1 about its excellence
and defects from association with the man who knows and being compelled to
listen to him,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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