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makes one clever, I presume, at speaking on the matter of which he gives one knowledge, namely harp-playing,—you agree to that?Yes.Well, about what does the sophist make one a clever speaker?Clearly it must be the same thing as that of which he gives one knowledge.So it would seem: now what is this thing, of which the sophist himself has knowledge and gives knowledge to his pupil?Ah, there, in good faith, he said, I fail to find you an answer.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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