Plato, Statesman, section 283b

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[283b] that weaving is the intertwining of woof and warp? Why did we beat about the bush and make a host of futile distinctions?

Younger Socrates
For my part, I thought nothing that was said was futile, Stranger.

Stranger
And no wonder; but perhaps you might change your mind. Now to avoid any such malady, in case it should, as is not unlikely, attack you frequently hereafter, I will propose a principle of procedure which is applicable

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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