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[531e]

Ion
I agree.

Socrates
And will this some one be the same as he who can distinguish the bad speakers, or different?

Ion
The same, I suppose.

Socrates
And he will be the man who has the art of numeration?

Ion
Yes.

Socrates
And again, when several are talking about what kinds of foods are wholesome, and one of them speaks better than the rest, will it be for two different persons to distinguish the superiority of the best speaker and the inferiority of a worse one, or for the same?

Ion
Obviously, I should say, for the same.

Socrates
Who is he? What is his name?

Ion
A doctor.

Socrates
And so we may state, in general terms, that the same person will always distinguish, given the same subject and several persons talking about it,


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