The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: How?
STRANGER: Open force may be called fighting, and secret force may have the
general name of hunting?
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: And there is no reason why the art of hunting should not be
further divided.
THEAETETUS: How would you make the division?
STRANGER: Into the hunting of living and of lifeless prey.
THEAETETUS: Yes, if both kinds exist.
STRANGER: Of course they exist; but the hunting after lifeless things
having no special name, except some sorts of diving, and other small
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