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“And we were right in
affirming that.” “The part of the soul, then, that
opines in contradiction of measurement could not be the same with that which
conforms to it.” “Why, no.” “But,
further, that which puts its trust in measurement and reckoning must be the
best part of the soul.” “Surely.”
“Then that which opposes it must belong to the inferior elements
of the soul.” “Necessarily.” “This,
then, was what I wished to have agreed upon when I said that poetry, and in
general the mimetic art, produces a product that is far removed from truth
in the accomplishment of its task, and associates with the part in us
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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