Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         the game out. He knows by experience that rhetoric exercises
 2  Gorg|          and Socrates answers, An experience or routine of making a sort
 3  Gorg|    cookery? ‘What is cookery?’ An experience or routine of making a sort
 4  Gorg|         out when he gains greater experience and skill. The inference
 5  Gorg|          years by observation and experience. The spoilt child is in
 6  Gorg|     paradoxical, come home to the experience of all of us.~Third Thesis:—~
 7  Gorg|         is from below, wisdom and experience are from above. It is not
 8  Gorg|      opposition between them. But experience shows that they are commonly
 9  Gorg|           those who have had more experience of the world and of evil.
10  Gorg|          and have their origin in experience, for experience makes the
11  Gorg|         origin in experience, for experience makes the days of men to
12  Gorg|       like myself, have had great experience of disputations, and you
13  Gorg|            I should say a sort of experience.~POLUS: Does rhetoric seem
14  Gorg|     rhetoric seem to you to be an experience?~SOCRATES: That is my view,
15  Gorg|           another mind.~POLUS: An experience in what?~SOCRATES: An experience
16  Gorg|  experience in what?~SOCRATES: An experience in producing a sort of delight
17  Gorg|       that rhetoric was a sort of experience?~SOCRATES: Will you, who
18  Gorg|         SOCRATES: I should say an experience.~POLUS: In what? I wish
19  Gorg|       explain to me.~SOCRATES: An experience in producing a sort of delight
20  Gorg|         as I maintain, is only an experience or routine and not an art:—
21  Gorg|          not call it, but only an experience, because it is unable to
22  Gorg|          call an art, but only an experience, was of the former class,
23  Gorg|          in my opinion is only an experience, and not an art at all;
24  Gorg| calculates anything, but works by experience and routine, and just preserves
25  Gorg| successfully or not, and acquired experience of the art! Is not this,