STRANGER: Weaving is a sort of uniting?
STRANGER: Shall we say that the whole art of the fuller or of the mender has nothing to do with the YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
care and treatment of clothes, or are we to regard all these as arts of weaving?
STRANGER: But the first process is a separation of the clotted and matted fibres?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?
STRANGER: And yet surely all these arts will maintain that they are concerned with the treatment and STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder’s art; production of clothes; they will dispute the exclu-for we cannot say that carding is weaving, or that sive prerogative of weaving, and though assigning a the carder is a weaver.
larger sphere to that, will still reserve a considerable field for themselves.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
STRANGER: Again, if a person were to say that the art of making the warp and the woof was the STRANGER: Besides these, there are the arts which art of weaving, he would say what was paradoxical make tools and instruments of weaving, and which and false.
will claim at least to be co-operative causes in every work of the weaver.
YOUNG SOCRATES: To be sure.