Dialogue

 1 Craty|          is conventional and also natural, and the true conventional-natural
 2 Craty|          name is that which has a natural meaning. Thus nature, art,
 3 Craty|   artificial or rational, and the natural. The view of Socrates is
 4 Craty|        and the philosopher is his natural advisor. We are not to suppose
 5 Craty|      determine:—was it due to the natural dislike which may be supposed
 6 Craty|         maintaining that they are natural, the latter that they are
 7 Craty|   different processes. There is a natural way of cutting or burning,
 8 Craty|         cutting or burning, and a natural instrument with which men
 9 Craty|          must name according to a natural process, and with a proper
10 Craty|         if you would show me this natural correctness of names.’~Indeed
11 Craty|          the most crucial test of natural fitness? Those of heroes
12 Craty|        you will admit to be their natural meaning. But then, why do
13 Craty|           he deny that there is a natural fitness in names. He only
14 Craty|         He only insists that this natural fitness shall be intelligibly
15 Craty|           idea that language is a natural organism. He would have
16 Craty|        primitive man, in whom the natural instinct is strongest, is
17 Craty|    picture sounds which represent natural objects or processes. Poetry
18 Craty|   Speaking is one of the simplest natural operations, and also the
19 Craty|           to walk or to eat, by a natural impulse; yet in either case
20 Craty|           imitation which is also natural to him—he is taught to read,
21 Craty|         of languages, and is very natural to the scientific philologist.
22 Craty|    distance. For languages have a natural but not a perfect growth;
23 Craty|         uttering them. Like other natural operations, the process
24 Craty|         is to be classed with the Natural or the Mental sciences,
25 Craty|         not be silently assumed.~‘Natural selection’ and the ‘survival
26 Craty|        being a truism. If by ‘the natural selection’ of words or meanings
27 Craty|         exceptions would not be a natural growth: for it could not
28 Craty|         some of the principles or natural laws which have created
29 Craty|         how much greater and more natural the exercise of the power
30 Craty|        they grew more refined—the natural laws of euphony began to
31 Craty|        countries and districts by natural boundaries, or of a vast
32 Craty|         crude imitations of other natural sounds, but as symbols of
33 Craty|     emphasis or pitch, become the natural expressions of the finer
34 Craty|        succeeding ages became the natural vehicle of expression to
35 Craty|          law of language which is natural and necessary. The word
36 Craty|         and theology, but also of natural knowledge. Yet it is far
37 Craty|      names; he says that they are natural and not conventional; not
38 Craty|        only, and according to the natural process of cutting; and
39 Craty|       process of cutting; and the natural process is right and will
40 Craty| HERMOGENES: I should say that the natural way is the right way.~SOCRATES:
41 Craty|          but the right way is the natural way, and the right instrument
42 Craty|          the right instrument the natural instrument.~HERMOGENES:
43 Craty|           be he who speaks in the natural way of speaking, and as
44 Craty|           be spoken, and with the natural instrument? Any other mode
45 Craty|           be given according to a natural process, and with a proper
46 Craty|        work, he must express this natural form, and not others which
47 Craty|          know how to put the true natural name of each thing into
48 Craty|        this is which you term the natural fitness of names.~SOCRATES:
49 Craty|         things by their right and natural names; do you not think
50 Craty|           birth a man, but only a natural birth. And the same may
51 Craty|           arbitrarily, but have a natural fitness? The names of heroes
52 Craty|       first of all to examine the natural fitness of the word psuche (
53 Craty|       offered to estia, which was natural enough if they meant that
54 Craty|         them, except the true and natural way, through their affinities,