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and just as we called the art statecraft which was concerned with the state, so we shall call the art concerned with clothes, from the nature of its activity, clothes-making, shall we not? And may we say further that weaving, in so far as the greatest part of it is, as we saw, concerned with the making of clothes, differs in name only from this art of clothes-making, just as in the other case the royal art differed from statecraft?Younger Socrates
That is perfectly correct.Stranger
Let us next reflect that a person might think that this description of the art of weaving was satisfactory,
That is perfectly correct.Stranger
Let us next reflect that a person might think that this description of the art of weaving was satisfactory,