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cut it according to joints as it has grown without attempting to break any part as a bad carver does. But as just now both arguments on the one hand
took insanity of mind as a single idea in common but as from one body paints of homonymous members grow. called lefts and rights so both arguments holding the idea of delirium to be one thing naturally produced in us one of them taking the part cut off on the left did not cease to dissect ituntil having discovered in the part what you might call a left handed Egos [seviled?] it with justice while the other leading as to the right hand side of madness found an Egos homonymouns to that other but divine and having dragged it forward commended it as a cause of greatest good for us 265c-266b The two processes here described are those of definition and logical analysis but Plato does not seem to distinguish them from generalization and logical division. Some remarks aboutrhetoric follow which are historically and otherwise interesting but which we cannot stop to notice further
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