Plato, Sophist, section 219a

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[219a]

Stranger
But I hope he offers us a method and is capable of a definition not unsuitable to our purpose.

Theaetetus
That would be good.

Stranger
Come now; let us begin with him in this way: Tell me, shall we say that he is a man with an art, or one without an art, but having some other power?

Theaetetus
Certainly not one without an art.

Stranger
But of all arts there are, speaking generally, two kinds?

Theaetetus
How so?

Stranger
Agriculture and all kinds of care of any living beings, and that which has to do with things which are put together or molded

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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