Dialogue

 1 Craty|          to any of them, nor the truth wholly the property of any.
 2 Craty|          the distinction between truth and falsehood. Hermogenes
 3 Craty|        is inclined to derive all truth from language, and in language
 4 Craty|      that Plato was aware of the truth, that ‘languages are not
 5 Craty|        lights by accident on the truth. He is guessing, he is dreaming;
 6 Craty|          then again allowing the truth to peer through; enjoying
 7 Craty|        the dialogue: What is the truth, or correctness, or principle
 8 Craty|          Socrates shows that the truth or correctness of names
 9 Craty|         appeal to etymology. The truth of names is to be found
10 Craty|      disguise, in order that the truth may be permitted to appear:
11 Craty|          who cares nothing about truth, but thinks only of putting
12 Craty|        consistency is no test of truth:’ or again, ‘If we are over-precise
13 Craty|        over-precise about words, truth will say “too late” to us
14 Craty|         himself thinks about the truth or correctness of names?
15 Craty|    nature of this correctness or truth, you must learn from the
16 Craty|         And this is not the only truth about philology which may
17 Craty|       original elements, and the truth of such a word must be tested
18 Craty|         has cast a veil over the truth. Yet all these are not reasons;
19 Craty|          be! Cratylus admits the truth of Socrates’ remark. But
20 Craty|         about at night, and that Truth herself may not say to us, ‘
21 Craty|        consistency is no test of truth. In geometrical problems,
22 Craty|          young, and find out the truth, and when you know come
23 Craty|         the greatest and deepest truth of philology; although he
24 Craty|     simple and compound words, a truth second only in importance
25 Craty|     affirms that language is not truth, or ‘philosophie une langue
26 Craty|       whole of language might in truth be said to be a figure of
27 Craty|        speech are far nearer the truth than the theories which
28 Craty|        the place of another; the truth is that no word is ever
29 Craty|    former cannot attain. But the truth seems to be that modern
30 Craty|         use; but that there is a truth or correctness in them,
31 Craty|          is your own view of the truth or correctness of names,
32 Craty|     therefore, I do not know the truth about such matters; I will,
33 Craty|          SOCRATES: But how about truth, then? you would acknowledge
34 Craty|     Protagoras is right, and the truth is that things are as they
35 Craty|           that you have said the truth.~SOCRATES: Does what I am
36 Craty|      that names have by nature a truth, and that not every man
37 Craty|       what is the nature of this truth or correctness of names?
38 Craty|   repudiating Protagoras and his truth (‘Truth’ was the title of
39 Craty|       Protagoras and his truth (‘Truth’ was the title of the book
40 Craty|   HERMOGENES: There is a deal of truth in what you say.~SOCRATES:
41 Craty|           You will recognize the truth of this if you repeat the
42 Craty|       care for euphony more than truth. There is the other name,
43 Craty|    powers of divination, and his truth and sincerity, which is
44 Craty|  sincerity, which is the same as truth, he may be most fitly called
45 Craty|  Certainly.~SOCRATES: Is not the truth that is in him the smooth
46 Craty|      desire to know the probable truth about them; they are rightly
47 Craty|          cares nothing about the truth, but thinks only of putting
48 Craty|       noblest, such as aletheia (truth) and pseudos (falsehood)
49 Craty|         elements, must not their truth or law be examined according
50 Craty|          we have not reached the truth as yet.~HERMOGENES: Why
51 Craty|         of the Gods, that of the truth about them we know nothing,
52 Craty|        which we can look for the truth of first names. Deprived
53 Craty|        no reasons concerning the truth of words. And yet any sort
54 Craty|         view, Hermogenes, of the truth of names; but I should like
55 Craty|    really a better theory of the truth of names, you may count
56 Craty|   assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment
57 Craty|          some other principle of truth in images, and also in names;
58 Craty|          and be likewise told by truth herself that we have arrived
59 Craty|         is to inform: the simple truth is, that he who knows names
60 Craty|       that he has not missed the truth, and the proof is—that he
61 Craty| asserting that they are like the truth, others contending that
62 Craty|         standard which shows the truth of things.~CRATYLUS: I agree.~
63 Craty|        whether the image and the truth of which the image is the
64 Craty|    conceived, or to learn of the truth whether the truth and the
65 Craty|         of the truth whether the truth and the image of it have
66 Craty|        that we must learn of the truth.~SOCRATES: How real existence
67 Craty|        in things, or whether the truth is what Heracleitus and
68 Craty|          when you have found the truth, come and tell me.~CRATYLUS: