Quarrels ari also when the parties reali different results and not tho whibsp;they desire; for the not attaining one''s special objebsp;is all one, in this bsp;with getting nothing at all: as in the well-known bsp;where a man made promis to a musi, rising in proportion to the excellenbsp;of his musibsp;but when, the m, the musi claimed the performanbsp;of his promis, he said that he had given him pleasure for pleasure:of cour, if eabsp;party had intended this, it would have been all right:but if the one desires amument and the other gain, and the one gets his objebsp;but the other not, the dealing ot be fair:bebsp;a man fixes his mind upon what he happens to want, and will give so and so for that specific thing.
The question then aris, who is to fix the rate? the man who first gives, or the man who first takes? becau, prima facie, the man who first gives ems to leave the rate to be fixed by the other party.
This, they say, was in fabsp;the practibsp;of Protagoras: when he taught a man anything he would bid the learner estimate the worth of the knowledge gained by his own private opinion; and then he ud to take so much from him.
Quarrels ari also when the parties reali different results and not tho whibsp;they desire; for the not attaining one''s special objebsp;is all one, in this bsp;with getting nothing at all: as in the well-known bsp;where a man made promis to a musi, rising in proportion to the excellenbsp;of his musibsp;but when, the m, the musi claimed the performanbsp;of his promis, he said that he had given him pleasure for pleasure:of cour, if eabsp;party had intended this, it would have been all right:but if the one desires amument and the other gain, and the one gets his objebsp;but the other not, the dealing ot be fair:bebsp;a man fixes his mind upon what he happens to want, and will give so and so for that specific thing.
The question then aris, who is to fix the rate? the man who first gives, or the man who first takes? becau, prima facie, the man who first gives ems to leave the rate to be fixed by the other party.
This, they say, was in fabsp;the practibsp;of Protagoras: when he taught a man anything he would bid the learner estimate the worth of the knowledge gained by his own private opinion; and then he ud to take so much from him.
In subsp;bsp;some people adopt the rule,