  The visitor remarks that although we call these people by different  names, they all have in common a power to maintain their rule by the  strength of their understanding with little use of their hands and  bodies (Statesman 259c). This is a rough and ready description of the target  kind the inquirers hope to find at the terminus of their  division. This crude description enables them to pick out a wide kind to divide (knowledge, epistêmê), and to take a  number of steps in the division. The Stranger first divides knowledge into practical and theoretical and then seeks to locate the target kind at the terminus stemming from theoretical knowledge.