Dialogue

 1 Craty|       should have understood Plato better, and many points which are
 2 Craty|           the guesses of Plato are better than all the other theories
 3 Craty|          and not to individuals.~A better conception of language could
 4 Craty|          you, having no money, had better learn from him at second-hand. ‘
 5 Craty|          general, some of them are better and some of them are worse
 6 Craty|        worse than others, and give better or worse laws, and make
 7 Craty|            or worse laws, and make better or worse names. Cratylus
 8 Craty|      cannot admit that one name is better than another; they are either
 9 Craty|     sentence may retain a meaning. Better to admit this, that we may
10 Craty|     expressing and describing them better. The world before the flood,
11 Craty|    principal form of a language is better understood. Many merely
12 Craty|       degrees. But would it not be better if this term, which is so
13 Craty|        said to be unproven: it had better therefore not be silently
14 Craty|     intermediate links, and so the better half of the evidence of
15 Craty|         sentence and paragraph are better distributed. The best modern
16 Craty|         from unpleasing to us. The better known words, even if their
17 Craty|     Nations, like individuals, are better understood by us when we
18 Craty|            life; and when they are better understood by us, we feel
19 Craty|    knowledge, and therefore we had better leave the question open
20 Craty| inheritance, and therefore you had better go to him, and beg and entreat
21 Craty|             Very good. But you had better watch me and see that I
22 Craty|            But I think that we had better leave these, for there will
23 Craty|            Attic, and you will see better that the name heros is only
24 Craty|      thought that you will be made better by associating with another?~
25 Craty|        single name could have been better adapted to express the attributes
26 Craty|      divine things’ (Theia noousa) better than others. Nor shall we
27 Craty|           To prevent that, you had better ask what is the derivation
28 Craty|          word ge (earth) comes out better when in the form of gaia,
29 Craty|      cannot be avoided—there is no better principle to which we can
30 Craty|           other notion may be even better still, of deriving them
31 Craty|           to me in return anything better which you may have.~HERMOGENES:
32 Craty|       names, or have you something better of your own? and if you
33 Craty|          you think, which if it be better than my own view I shall
34 Craty|           that you have found some better notion. For you have evidently
35 Craty|           and if you have really a better theory of the truth of names,
36 Craty|        mean: of painters, some are better and some worse?~CRATYLUS:
37 Craty|       CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: The better painters execute their works,
38 Craty|       works, I mean their figures, better, and the worse execute them
39 Craty|          and of builders also, the better sort build fairer houses,
40 Craty|         are some who do their work better and some worse?~CRATYLUS:
41 Craty|           think that some laws are better and others worse?~CRATYLUS:
42 Craty|      SOCRATES: Or that one name is better than another?~CRATYLUS:
43 Craty|         given. I think that we had better admit this, lest we be punished
44 Craty|            of things, is there any better way of framing representations
45 Craty|            Socrates, is infinitely better than representation by any