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Sophist

By: Plato

... Sophist by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sophist by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett , the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Sophist – Plato SOPHIST by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANA... ...lato ist or the Statesman can be caught in this way. But these divisions and subdivisions were favourite logical exercises of the age in which he live... ...hist – Plato ing the words—’I should like to ask our Eleatic friend what his countrymen think of them; do they regard them as one, or three?’ The Stra... .... For is he less a Sophist when, in stead of exporting his wares to another country , he stays at home, and retails goods, which he not only buys of ... ...s he disengages himself from them or absorbs him self in them. Moreover the types of greatness differ; while one man is the expression of the influen... ...GER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in the acquisitive class, in the subdivisions of hunting, contests, merchandize, and the like. THEAETETUS:...

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