STRANGER: Let us now take an illustration, which will still more clearly explain his nature.
THEAETETUS: What is it?
STRANGER: I will tell you, and you shall answer me, giving your very closest attention. Suppose that a person were to profess, not that he could speak or dispute, but that he knew how to make and do all things, by a single art.
THEAETETUS: All things?
STRANGER: I see that you do not understand the first word that I utter, for you do not understand the meaning of 'all.'
THEAETETUS: No, I do not.
STRANGER: Under all things, I include you and me, and also animals and trees.
THEAETETUS: What do you mean?
STRANGER: Suppose a person to say that he will make you and me, and all creatures.
THEAETETUS: What would he mean by 'making'? He cannot be a husbandman;—for you said that he is a maker of animals.