[438d]
I
mean something like this: As there was a science of making a house it
differed from other sciences so as to be named architecture.”
“Certainly.” “Was not this by reason of its
being of a certain kind1 such as no other of all the
rest?” “Yes.” “And was it not
because it was of something of a certain kind that it itself became a
certain kind of science? And similarly of the other arts and
sciences?” “That is so.“This then,” said I, “if haply you now
understand, is what you must say I then meant, by the statement that of all
things that are such as to be of something those that are just themselves
only are of things just themselves only,
1 Cf. Philebus 37 C.
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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