Dialogue

 1 Craty|          the study of language we know little, and there necessarily
 2 Craty|           Of the real Cratylus we know nothing, except that he
 3 Craty|        names of the Gods, that we know nothing. Even the realism
 4 Craty|           Still he preserves his ‘know nothing’ disguise, and himself
 5 Craty|          rather, he would like to know, What Socrates himself thinks
 6 Craty|           the legislator ought to know the different materials
 7 Craty|           should like to let them know beforehand that we are not
 8 Craty|        these disguised words. You know that according to the old
 9 Craty|         singly, we shall learn to know them in their various combinations
10 Craty|           the truth, and when you know come and tell me. ‘I have
11 Craty|  resolving the languages which we know into their parts, and then
12 Craty|     origin of man; and if we ever know more of the one, we may
13 Craty|         the one, we may expect to know more of the other. (Compare
14 Craty|       studies in which we seem to know less as we know more; partly
15 Craty|           seem to know less as we know more; partly because we
16 Craty| conjectures only: so little do we know of the origin of language
17 Craty|           we may be truly said to know what we can manufacture.
18 Craty|      visible and intellectual. We know from experience that it
19 Craty|          regulated: but we do not know, and we seem as if we should
20 Craty|        seem as if we should never know, any more than in the parallel
21 Craty| exceptions. We do not say that we know how sense became first allied
22 Craty|          understood by us when we know something of their early
23 Craty|           and therefore, I do not know the truth about such matters;
24 Craty|          for example, he ought to know how to put into iron the
25 Craty|        not our legislator also to know how to put the true natural
26 Craty|          being done, and who will know also whether the work is
27 Craty|  legislator in his work, and will know whether the work is well
28 Craty|       names? That, if you care to know, is the next question.~HERMOGENES:
29 Craty|  HERMOGENES: Certainly, I care to know.~SOCRATES: Then reflect.~
30 Craty|           assistance of those who know, and you must pay them well
31 Craty|   referring?~SOCRATES: Do you not know what he says about the river
32 Craty|           and about this river—to know that he ought to be called
33 Craty| Scamandrius?~HERMOGENES: I do not know.~SOCRATES: How would you
34 Craty|       SOCRATES: And Homer, as you know, says that the Trojan men
35 Craty|     believe that I myself did not know what I meant when I imagined
36 Craty|       names of letters, which you know are not the same as the
37 Craty|           intended—so well did he know how to give the letters
38 Craty|           me all in an instant, I know not whence, will or will
39 Craty|        Let me hear.~SOCRATES: You know how Hesiod uses the word?~
40 Craty|        mean?~SOCRATES: Do you not know that the heroes are demigods?~
41 Craty|         follow next in order. You know the distinction of soul
42 Craty|         of Zeus? I should like to know whether any similar principle
43 Craty|  acknowledge,—that of the Gods we know nothing, either of their
44 Craty|           like, because we do not know of any other. That also,
45 Craty|          which is all that we who know nothing can affirm. Next
46 Craty|        more God! I should like to know about Hermes, of whom I
47 Craty|         him out, and then I shall know whether there is any meaning
48 Craty|         you; but I should like to know first whether you can tell
49 Craty|     inference?~SOCRATES: Why, you know that any one who seeks to
50 Craty|       Attic way, if you desire to know the probable truth about
51 Craty|          should like very much to know, in the next place, how
52 Craty|         and, like epistasthai (to know), implies the progression
53 Craty|          be true, I still want to know what is justice.’ Thereupon
54 Craty|         dear friend; but then you know that the original names
55 Craty|        view.~SOCRATES: And do you know that the ancients said duogon
56 Craty|           of onoma.~SOCRATES: You know the word maiesthai (to seek)?~
57 Craty|     considered all this, we shall know how to apply them to what
58 Craty|           the truth about them we know nothing, and do but entertain
59 Craty|         age. But I should like to know whether you are one of those
60 Craty|       which is all that I want to know.~CRATYLUS: I should say
61 Craty|           say skleros (hard), you know what I mean.~CRATYLUS: Yes,
62 Craty|       which I understand, and you know that I understand the meaning
63 Craty|           And if when I speak you know my meaning, there is an
64 Craty|           knows the one will also know the other, because they
65 Craty|         who knows names will also know things.~CRATYLUS: That is
66 Craty|      about which I should like to know whether you think with me.
67 Craty|        givers of the first names, know or not know the things which
68 Craty|          first names, know or not know the things which they named?~
69 Craty|           how would you expect to know them? What other way can
70 Craty|          or state, for you cannot know that which has no state.~
71 Craty|           there will be no one to know and nothing to be known: