Dialogue

 1 Craty|             he is not competent to give an opinion on such matters.
 2 Craty|          maintain that anybody may give a name to anything, and
 3 Craty|           a name? Does not the law give names, and does not the
 4 Craty|         and that not every one can give a name. But what is the
 5 Craty|          Gods are those which they give themselves; but these are
 6 Craty|        request, that Cratylus will give some account of his theory.
 7 Craty|         are worse than others, and give better or worse laws, and
 8 Craty|         and also that pictures may give a right or wrong representation
 9 Craty|         may not names then equally give a representation true and
10 Craty|           admits that pictures may give a true or false representation,
11 Craty|         nouns to pictures, you may give them all the appropriate
12 Craty|          day, my friend, you shall give me a lesson. ‘Very good,
13 Craty|           of which he is unable to give an account. These unintelligible
14 Craty|           an effort of the mind to give unity to infinitely various
15 Craty|           they too are attempts to give unity and regularity to
16 Craty|            of the same quality, or give precisely the same impression.~
17 Craty|           useful in so far as they give us an insight into the history
18 Craty|            crucial questions which give us an insight from different
19 Craty|           out a shade of colour to give effect to his picture. It
20 Craty|           two may be sufficient to give an intimation to a friend;
21 Craty|        nature of human speech will give us a greater command of
22 Craty|      agreement; any name which you give, in my opinion, is the right
23 Craty|         and if you change that and give another, the new name is
24 Craty|         names other than this; you give one name, and I another;
25 Craty|           say.~SOCRATES: Do we not give information to one another,
26 Craty|         not the law seem to you to give us them?~HERMOGENES: Yes,
27 Craty|           not every man is able to give a name, but only a maker
28 Craty|         syllables, and to make and give all names with a view to
29 Craty|            of the legislator is to give names, and the dialectician
30 Craty|         not every man knows how to give a thing a name.~HERMOGENES:
31 Craty|           names which Gods and men give to the same things. Does
32 Craty|          unwise are more likely to give correct names?~HERMOGENES:
33 Craty|         did not Homer himself also give Hector his name?~HERMOGENES:
34 Craty|            well did he know how to give the letters names.~HERMOGENES:
35 Craty|          out letters in words, and give names as we please and change
36 Craty|            of the names which they give themselves; but we are sure
37 Craty|      foreign origin, which I shall give to this word also.~HERMOGENES:
38 Craty|         permutation will sometimes give an entirely opposite sense;
39 Craty|        omicron. But why do you not give me another word?~HERMOGENES:
40 Craty|            answer him must at last give up the enquiry in despair.~
41 Craty|         ought he to lose heart and give up the enquiry? Must he
42 Craty| classification of things, we shall give them names, and see whether,
43 Craty|        languages should be able to give a very lucid explanation
44 Craty|            to be an oracle, and to give answers much to my mind,
45 Craty|            pictures you may either give all the appropriate colours
46 Craty|            figures, or you may not give them all—some may be wanting;
47 Craty|         givers of names did really give them under the idea that
48 Craty|           you come back, you shall give me a lesson; but at present,