Dialogue

 1 Craty|           perfect expression of a thing, or a mere inarticulate
 2 Craty|         expresses the nature of a thing; and is the invention not
 3 Craty|         bear a resemblance to the thing signified. I must remind
 4 Craty|         used? Imitation is a poor thing, and has to be supplemented
 5 Craty| convention, which is another poor thing; although I agree with you
 6 Craty|          and always good? Can the thing beauty be vanishing away
 7 Craty|           himself to be an unreal thing, nor will he believe that
 8 Craty|         is or is not a name for a thing, we cannot argue that the
 9 Craty|          we cannot argue that the thing has or has not an actual
10 Craty|          the three. Language is a thing of degrees and relations
11 Craty|      which adapts the word to the thing, adapts the sentence or
12 Craty|           word corresponds to the thing signified by it; or bombos (
13 Craty|         is, that the name of each thing is only that which anybody
14 Craty|          be so many names of each thing as everybody says that there
15 Craty|      admit that there was no such thing as a bad man?~HERMOGENES:
16 Craty|         true natural name of each thing into sounds and syllables,
17 Craty|      looks to the name which each thing by nature has, and is able
18 Craty|           man knows how to give a thing a name.~HERMOGENES: Very
19 Craty|        long as the essence of the thing remains in possession of
20 Craty|       bargainer; all that sort of thing has a great deal to do with
21 Craty|        name at once signifies the thing, and you may clearly understand
22 Craty|          the name of this sort of thing, arete will be the opposite
23 Craty|          which being the swiftest thing in existence, allows of
24 Craty|          essential nature of each thing—just as boule (counsel)
25 Craty|         imitate the nature of the thing; the elevation of our hands
26 Craty|      there not an essence of each thing, just as there is a colour,
27 Craty|       express the essence of each thing in letters and syllables,
28 Craty|        express the nature of each thing?~HERMOGENES: Quite so.~SOCRATES:
29 Craty|      letter is used to denote one thing, or whether there is to
30 Craty|       indicates the nature of the thing:—has this proposition been
31 Craty|          not falsehood saying the thing which is not?~SOCRATES:
32 Craty|          is not the same with the thing named?~CRATYLUS: I should.~
33 Craty|       name is an imitation of the thing?~CRATYLUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
34 Craty|         exactly the same with the thing; but allow the occasional
35 Craty|          and acknowledge that the thing may be named, and described,
36 Craty|          general character of the thing which you are describing
37 Craty|    letters are wanting, still the thing is signified;—well, if all
38 Craty|       name is the expression of a thing in letters or syllables;
39 Craty|           the representation of a thing?~CRATYLUS: Yes, I do.~SOCRATES:
40 Craty|        the name is to be like the thing, the letters out of which
41 Craty|    resemble any actually existing thing, unless the original elements
42 Craty|      Hermogenes says, is a shabby thing, which has to be supplemented
43 Craty|           name is, so also is the thing; and that he who knows the
44 Craty|           that; must not the same thing be born and retire and vanish
45 Craty|       Then how can that be a real thing which is never in the same
46 Craty|          the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not