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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: weaving or any other; for all the arts guard against excess or defect,
which are real evils. This we must endeavour to show, if the arts are to
exist; and the proof of this will be a harder piece of work than the
demonstration of the existence of not-being which we proved in our
discussion about the Sophist. At present I am content with the indirect
proof that the existence of such a standard is necessary to the existence
of the arts. The standard or measure, which we are now only applying to
the arts, may be some day required with a view to the demonstration of
absolute truth.
We may now divide this art of measurement into two parts; placing in the
one part all the arts which measure the relative size or number of objects,
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