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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: ION: No; the pilot will know best.
SOCRATES: Or will the rhapsode know better than the physician what the
ruler of a sick man ought to say?
ION: He will not.
SOCRATES: But he will know what a slave ought to say?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Suppose the slave to be a cowherd; the rhapsode will know better
than the cowherd what he ought to say in order to soothe the infuriated
cows?
ION: No, he will not.
SOCRATES: But he will know what a spinning-woman ought to say about the
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