The Sophist
   Part
 1 Intro|   manufactures, imitations; and acquisitive art, which includes learning,
 2 Intro|     hunting. The angler’s is an acquisitive art, and acquisition may
 3 Intro|    another line of descent. The acquisitive art had a branch of exchange
 4 Intro|       may be descended from the acquisitive art in the combative line,
 5 Intro|         branches—productive and acquisitive. And now we may divide both
 6 Text |         art which may be called acquisitive.~THEAETETUS: Yes, that is
 7 Text |        that all arts are either acquisitive or creative, in which class
 8 Text |      THEAETETUS: Clearly in the acquisitive class.~STRANGER: And the
 9 Text |        class.~STRANGER: And the acquisitive may be subdivided into two
10 Text | purchase; and the other part of acquisitive, which takes by force of
11 Text |         One half of all art was acquisitive—half of the acquisitive
12 Text |         acquisitive—half of the acquisitive art was conquest or taking
13 Text |    branch of the appropriative, acquisitive family—which hunts animals,—
14 Text |         There were two sorts of acquisitive art; the one concerned with
15 Text | STRANGER: Then that part of the acquisitive art which exchanges, and
16 Text |         is it?~STRANGER: In the acquisitive there was a subdivision
17 Text |          pugnacious, combative, acquisitive family, as the argument
18 Text |         by us into creative and acquisitive.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
19 Text |       flitting before us in the acquisitive class, in the subdivisions