  The paradigm of the angler demonstrates the method of dichotomous  division and steers the first attempt to define the sophist. An  angler has a humble profession, familiar to everyone  (Sophist 218e): an angler hunts water creatures using a  special sort of hook. The visitor arrives at his definition by first  locating the angler’s profession in a wide kind, art or expertise  (technê). He divides art into two subordinate kinds,  productive and acquisitive, then continues to divide the acquisitive  branch until he reaches the terminus, where he finds angling marked  off as what it is, apart from everything else. The sophist resembles  the angler in possessing expertise, but more intimately as well. He,  too, is a sort of hunter, but one who hunts terrestrial creatures  rather than aquatic. The Stranger first defines the sophist as a  hired hunter of rich young men (Sophist 223b; 231d).