Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... 339-33, 598 B below. The productions of representative art fall under this head, as we see from the first and last of these passages. Images are a first aid in seeing: cf. 233. n, n. 232. 4. ' Stand for the real objects corresponding to these 510 A images/ more lit., ' for that to which this (viz., the segment of images) is like/ The verb 'to be like, ' which is used here, echoes the term for image ('likeness'), and suggests such words as likely and likelihood, --' to liken, ' in sense of to guess, and so fancy and guesswork as 'going by likeness.' This connection of ideas runs through the whole argument about ' images ' and knowledge. 6. 'World of nature and of art.' Better, as Jowett, 'everything that grows and is made, ' the latter meaning the products of industrial art, not of ' fine' or representative art. 8. 'With reference to this class, ' etc., more lit, 'that it (viz., the lower part of the line) is divided in respect of trueness and untrueness in the same way as (the whole of) seeming from (the whole of) the intelligible, the terms answering to these being the copy and that of which it is a copy.' See on 'trueness' 230. 93, 508 c note. The lower segment of the lower part is to the higher segment as the whole lower part to the whole higher part. Hence it follows almost conclusively that the higher segment of the higher part stands for a concrete world, as does the higher segment of the lower part, the lower segment of each part being emphatically abstract. 10. ' One segment will represent'; the lower segment of the B higher part of the line stands for the mathematical sciences, which employ ' the segments of the other part, ' i.e. the objects and copies of objects which those segments stand for, as illustrations, as in Eucli