Plato, Sophist, section 232c

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[232c] at the beginning with this question: Is it about divine things which are invisible to others that they make people able to dispute?

Theaetetus
That is their reputation, at any rate.

Stranger
And how about the visible things of earth and heaven and the like?

Theaetetus
Those are included, of course.

Stranger
And furthermore in private conversations, when the talk is about generation and being in general, we know (do we not?) that they are clever disputants themselves and impart equal ability to others.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

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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