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employed to advise gratis, or in exchange for a fee.[44]
[Footnote 42: Aristotel. Topic, i. 1, p. 100, b. 21. [Greek: e)/ndoxa
de\ ta\ dokou=nta pa=sin ê)\ toi=s plei/stois ê)\ toi=s sophoi=s,
kai\ tou/tois ê)\ pa=sin ê)\ toi=s plei/stois ê)\ toi=s ma/lista
gnôri/mois kai\ e)ndo/xois. E)ristiko\s de\ e)/sti sullogismo\s o(
e)k phainome/nôn e)ndo/xôn, mê\ o)/ntôn de\--kai\ o( e)x e)ndo/xôn
ê)\ phainome/nôn e)ndo/xôn phaino/menos. Ou)the\n ga\r tô=n
legome/nôn e)ndo/xôn e)pipolai/on e)/chei pantelô=s tê\n phantasi/an,
katha/per peri\ ta\s tô=n e)ristikô=n lo/gôn a)rcha\s sumbe/bêken
e)/chein. Parachrê=ma ga\r kai\ ô(s e)pi\ to\ polu\ toi=s kai\ mikra\
sunora=|n duname/nois, kata/dêlos e)n au)toi=s ê( tou= pseu/dous
e)/sti phu/sis.]
De Sophisticis Elenchis, i. p. 165, a. 21. [Greek: e)/sti ga\r ê(
sophistikê\ phainome/nê sophi/a, ou)=sa d' ou)/; kai\ o( sophistê\s
chrêmatistê\s a)po\ phainome/nês sophi/as, a)ll' ou)k ou)/sês], p.
165, b. 10, p. 171, b. 8-27. [Greek: Oi( phile/rides, e)ristikoi\,
a)gônistikoi\], are persons who break the rules of dialectic ([Greek:
a)dikomachi/a]) for the purpose of gaining victory; [Greek: oi(
sophistai\] are those who do the same thing for the purpose of
getting money. See also Metaphys. iii. 1004, b. 17.]
[Footnote 43: Aristot. Sophist. Elench. p. 172, a. 30.]
[Footnote 44: Aristot. Rhetor, i. 1, 1355, b. 18. He here admits that
the only difference between the Dialectician and the Sophist lies in
their purposes--that the mental activity employed by both is the
same. [Greek: o( ga\r sophistiko\s ou)k e)n tê=| duna/mei a)ll' e)n
tê=| proaire/sei; plê\n e)ntau=tha me\n] (in Rhetoric) [Greek:
e)/stai o( me\n kata\ tê\n e)pistê/mên o( de\ kata\ tê\n proai/resin,
r(ê/tôr, e)kei= de\] (in Dialectic) [Greek: sophistê\s me\n kata\
tê\n proai/resin, dialektiko\s de\ ou) kata\ tê\n proai/resin, a)lla\
kata\ tê\n du/namin.]]
[Side-note: Philosophical purpose of the Euthydêmus--exposure
of fallacies, in Plato's dramatic manner, by multiplication of
particular examples.]