Dialogue

 1 Craty|           dispelling. We need not suppose that Plato used words in
 2 Craty|          the last century. May we suppose that Plato, like Lucian,
 3 Craty|    natural advisor. We are not to suppose that the legislator is performing
 4 Craty|         an old man to understand: Suppose a person addressing Cratylus
 5 Craty|       purely quantitative nature. Suppose that there are two objects—
 6 Craty|      names; and therefore we must suppose that he knows the things
 7 Craty|       others of motion? ‘I do not suppose that he did make them both.’
 8 Craty|         and are answered. But now suppose that some one at a distance
 9 Craty|       beginning. He is too apt to suppose that by breaking up the
10 Craty|    synthetical and analytical, or suppose similarity of structure
11 Craty|        all of them. Neither do we suppose them to be invented by the
12 Craty|        space and time. Nor can we suppose the conception of cause
13 Craty|          It would be a mistake to suppose that the analogies of language
14 Craty|     Milton. There is no reason to suppose that English or French will
15 Craty|         Grammars would lead us to suppose that words have a fixed
16 Craty| Hermogenes, Cratylus.~HERMOGENES: Suppose that we make Socrates a
17 Craty|          let me take an instance;—suppose that I call a man a horse
18 Craty|  HERMOGENES: Certainly.~SOCRATES: Suppose that I ask, ‘What sort of
19 Craty|           sure.~SOCRATES: And now suppose that I ask a similar question
20 Craty|          them?~HERMOGENES: Yes, I suppose so.~SOCRATES: Then the teacher,
21 Craty|          Certainly.~SOCRATES: And suppose the shuttle to be broken
22 Craty|          is the inference! Why, I suppose that he means by the golden
23 Craty|          SOCRATES: And do you not suppose that good men of our own
24 Craty|         help laughing, if I am to suppose that this was the true meaning
25 Craty|     proper.~SOCRATES: What may we suppose him to have meant who gave
26 Craty|          be faint of heart; and I suppose that I must consider the
27 Craty|          internal condition, they suppose to be a reality of nature;
28 Craty|           disagree. For those who suppose all things to be in motion
29 Craty|         likely you are right; but suppose that we leave these words
30 Craty|          profitable)?~SOCRATES: I suppose, Hermogenes, that people
31 Craty|        away at them manfully; but suppose that some one were to say
32 Craty|          the right.~SOCRATES: And suppose the names about which you
33 Craty|          will ask you a question: Suppose that we had no voice or
34 Craty|        SOCRATES: Well, but do you suppose that you will be able to
35 Craty|        about the rest. Do you not suppose this to be true?~HERMOGENES:
36 Craty|            Hermogenes, you do not suppose that you can learn, or I
37 Craty|        longer be an image. Let us suppose the existence of two objects:
38 Craty|          of Cratylus; and we will suppose, further, that some God
39 Craty|   indication of our thoughts; for suppose we take the instance of
40 Craty|    expressed by them.~SOCRATES: I suppose you mean to say, Cratylus,
41 Craty|         through names, how can we suppose that the givers of names
42 Craty|         mistaken?~CRATYLUS: But I suppose one of the two not to be
43 Craty|         is true, Cratylus, then I suppose that things may be known
44 Craty|   CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Let us suppose that to any extent you please
45 Craty|          the medium of names, and suppose also that you can learn