Dialogue

 1   Ion|        things of which he has no knowledge?’ Ion answers that he can
 2   Ion|    clearness of ideas, or to the knowledge of poetry or of any other
 3   Ion|         he professes to have all knowledge, which is derived by him
 4   Ion|         Homer without any art or knowledge. If you were able to speak
 5   Ion|        when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry
 6   Ion|        to say; for not by art or knowledge about Homer do you say what
 7   Ion|       Homer of which you have no knowledge?~ION: And what is there
 8   Ion|         Homer of which I have no knowledge?~SOCRATES: Why, does not
 9   Ion|         appointed by God to have knowledge of a certain work; for that
10   Ion|        one art is of one kind of knowledge and another of another,
11   Ion|    surely; for if the subject of knowledge were the same, there would
12   Ion|          they both gave the same knowledge. For example, I know that
13   Ion|         have the same subject of knowledge, and different arts other
14   Ion| different arts other subjects of knowledge?~ION: That is my opinion,
15   Ion|     SOCRATES: Then he who has no knowledge of a particular art will
16   Ion|     SOCRATES: And if a different knowledge, then a knowledge of different
17   Ion|      different knowledge, then a knowledge of different matters?~ION:
18   Ion|       have different subjects of knowledge?~ION: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
19   Ion|          you may possibly have a knowledge of the art of the general
20   Ion|          and you may also have a knowledge of horsemanship as well
21   Ion|        in saying that by art and knowledge you are able to praise Homer,