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but sometimes
make mistakes.” “That is because you argue like a
pettifogger, Socrates. Why, to take the nearest example, do you call one who
is mistaken about the sick a physician in respect of his mistake or one who
goes wrong in a calculation a calculator when he goes wrong and in respect
of this error? Yet that is what we say literally—we say that the
physicianFor the idea cf. Rousseau's Emile, i.:
“On me dira . . . que les fautes sont du medecin, mais que la
medicine en elle-meme est infaillible. A al bonne heure; mais qu'elle
vienne donc sans le medecin.” Lucian, De Parasito 54, parodies this
reasoning. erred and the calculator and the schoolmaster. But the
truth, I take it, is, that each