Dialogue

 1 Phileb| highest good, the sciences and arts and true opinions are enumerated
 2 Phileb|     mensuration, and weighing. Arts like carpentering, which
 3 Phileb|   distinction between the fine arts and the mechanical; and,
 4 Phileb|       order of the sciences or arts, which agrees generally
 5 Phileb|       that the position of the arts is more exactly defined.
 6 Phileb| measure. Of the more empirical arts, music is given as an example;
 7 Phileb|     theoretical element of the arts may also become a purely
 8 Phileb|      probably classed with the arts and true opinions, because
 9 Phileb| philosophical. Of the creative arts, there is one part purer
10 Phileb|       measure. Of the creative arts, then, we may make two classes—
11 Phileb|        other. Thus we have two arts of arithmetic, and two of
12 Phileb|     greatest and usefullest of arts; and I should not like to
13 Phileb|      that she is the truest of arts; my remark is not quantitative
14 Phileb|        than any other? For the arts generally are only occupied
15 Phileb|      wisdom. Secondly, ask the arts and sciences—they reply
16 Phileb|   wisdom.~Fourth, sciences and arts and true opinions.~Fifth,
17 Phileb|     all the discoveries in the arts.~PROTARCHUS: Tell us what
18 Phileb|       productive or handicraft arts, is not one part more akin
19 Phileb|        accuracy than the other arts.~PROTARCHUS: How is that?~
20 Phileb|     Then now let us divide the arts of which we were speaking
21 Phileb|   speaking into two kinds,—the arts which, like music, are less
22 Phileb|    arithmetic, and the kindred arts of weighing and measuring.~
23 Phileb|         already shown that the arts have different provinces,
24 Phileb|       say in reply, that those arts into which arithmetic and
25 Phileb|  others; and that of these the arts or sciences which are animated
26 Phileb|   SOCRATES: That there are two arts of arithmetic, and two of
27 Phileb|         and also several other arts which in like manner have
28 Phileb|    what we term the most exact arts or sciences.~PROTARCHUS:
29 Phileb|       or best or usefullest of arts or sciences, but which had
30 Phileb|   because you observe that the arts in general and those engaged
31 Phileb|       pleasures, as there were arts and sciences necessary,
32 Phileb| SOCRATES: The knowledge of the arts has been admitted to be
33 Phileb|       to the soul—sciences and arts and true opinions as we