Dialogue

 1 Intro|           we will select the art of weaving, which will have to be distinguished
 2 Intro|          will select the example of weaving, or, more precisely, weaving
 3 Intro|        weaving, or, more precisely, weaving of wool. In the first place,
 4 Intro|     clothing, from which the art of weaving differs only in name, as
 5 Intro|          have not distinguished the weaving of garments from the kindred
 6 Intro|        subjected is the opposite of weaving—I mean carding. And the
 7 Intro|      clothes, as well as the art of weaving. Again, there are the arts
 8 Intro|            operations is the art of weaving.~But why did we go through
 9 Intro|      instead of saying at once that weaving is the art of entwining
10 Intro|             statesman or the art of weaving or any other; for all the
11 Intro|           one analyze the nature of weaving for its own sake. There
12 Intro|           that our discussion about weaving and about the reversal of
13 Intro|      transfer to him the example of weaving. The royal art has been
14 Intro|              and compare the art of weaving with the royal science,
15 Intro|          incidental advantage, that weaving and the web furnish us with
16 Intro|       comparison of particular arts—weaving, the refining of gold, the
17 Intro|              in which are contained weaving, politics, dialectic; and
18 Intro|           derived from the image of weaving, he calls the warp and the
19 State|          example at hand, we choose weaving, or, more precisely, weaving
20 State|        weaving, or, more precisely, weaving of wool— this will be quite
21 State|         without taking the whole of weaving, to illustrate our meaning?~
22 State|          Why should we not apply to weaving the same processes of division
23 State|             not say that the art of weaving, at least that largest portion
24 State|         reflection, that the art of weaving clothes, which an incompetent
25 State|             now parted off from the weaving of clothes, the making of
26 State|       defences, and has the name of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.~
27 State|        subjected is the opposite of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES: How so?~
28 State|         SOCRATES: How so?~STRANGER: Weaving is a sort of uniting?~YOUNG
29 State|          cannot say that carding is weaving, or that the carder is a
30 State|             the woof was the art of weaving, he would say what was paradoxical
31 State|         regard all these as arts of weaving?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly
32 State|            exclusive prerogative of weaving, and though assigning a
33 State|            tools and instruments of weaving, and which will claim at
34 State|              suppose that we define weaving, or rather that part of
35 State| satisfactorily the aforesaid art of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES: We must.~
36 State|           the nature of the part of weaving which we have undertaken
37 State|             over this is the art of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.~
38 State|             we not say at once that weaving is the art of entwining
39 State|            and the aforesaid art of weaving disappear? For all these
40 State|            to analyse the notion of weaving for its own sake. But people
41 State|             in the discussion about weaving, and the reversal of the
42 State|            the aforesaid example of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good;—
43 State|            we did in the example of weaving—all those arts which furnish
44 State|             after the pattern which weaving supplied?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
45 State|       authority; just as the art of weaving continually gives orders
46 State|          the whole process of royal weaving is comprised—never to allow