  Although the Sophist and Statesman are dialogues,  the interaction between the Stranger and his two young interlocutors  seems rather different from that between Socrates and his interlocutors in the Socratic dialogues, including the Theaetetus. In that dialogue Theaetetus distinguished himself as a highly promising  student, who answered Socrates’ questions resourcefully. The  respondents in the Sophist and Statesman are  docile by comparison, readily accepting the Stranger’s arguments and  occasionally asking him to explain, but rarely raising tough  objections or making good proposals of their own. Young Socrates in  the Statesman is particularly prone to misunderstandings and mistakes. Of all the respondents in Plato’s dialogues, the  interlocutors in the Sophist and Statesman most  closely resemble the respondent in the second part of the  Parmenides, a young man named Aristotle (not the famous  philosopher), who never objects when he should, and who gives his  most enthusiastic assents when Parmenides’ argument is most  problematic or obscure.