SOPHIST (continued 1)

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STRANGER: Indeed there is a very considerable crack; for if you look, you find that one of the two classes of imitators is a simple creature, who thinks that he knows that which he only fancies; the other sort has knocked about among arguments, until he suspects and fears that he is ignorant of that which to the many he pretends to know.
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THEAETETUS: There are certainly the two kinds which you describe.
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STRANGER: Shall we regard one as the simple imitator—the other as the dissembling or ironical imitator?

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INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. SOPHIST (continued 2)