If not an art, then what?
Session 15 of 85462b–462d4 min
PolusWell, I’ll do that. And answer me, Socrates: since Gorgias seems to you to be at a loss about rhetoric, what do you yourself say it is?
SocratesAre you asking what art I say it is?
PolusI am.
SocratesNone, it seems to me, Polus—if I am to tell you the truth, at least.
PolusBut what does rhetoric seem to you to be?
SocratesThe thing that, you say in the treatise I read recently, produced art.
PolusWhat do you mean by that?
Here Plato pauses for you462c
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