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Single Idea 287

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

It takes expertise in dialectic to divide things by kinds and not to think that the same form is a different one or that a different form is the same.

Gist of Idea

Good analysis involves dividing things into appropriate forms without confusion

Source

Plato (The Sophist [c.359 BCE], 253d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.49