Dialogue

 1 Craty|      seems to demand a more exact answer: In what relation does the
 2 Craty|           etymologies furnish any answer to the question of Hermogenes,
 3 Craty|     syllables and letters?~1. The answer to this difficulty has been
 4 Craty|        kinds of shuttles ought to answer in material and form to
 5 Craty|          names—he who can ask and answer questions—in short, the
 6 Craty|         possibly this is the true answer. But mere antiquity may
 7 Craty|      impossible, to which his own answer would be, that there has
 8 Craty|  structure of such complexity? No answer could have been given to
 9 Craty|          admit of exceptions. The answer in all cases is the same—
10 Craty|        the voice of man and makes answer to him. Man tells to man
11 Craty|          of language, there is no answer to the question; or no other
12 Craty|         the question; or no other answer but this, that there are
13 Craty|         have been at once able to answer your question about the
14 Craty|       HERMOGENES: Yes; what other answer is possible?~SOCRATES: Then
15 Craty| instrument is a shuttle?’ And you answer, ‘A weaving instrument.’~
16 Craty|         we do when we weave?’—The answer is, that we separate or
17 Craty|    question about names: will you answer me? Regarding the name as
18 Craty|       forms of shuttles naturally answer to the several kinds of
19 Craty|         Yes.~SOCRATES: And how to answer them?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
20 Craty|          who knows how to ask and answer you would call a dialectician?~
21 Craty|   syllables.~HERMOGENES: I cannot answer you, Socrates; but I find
22 Craty|           SOCRATES: How would you answer, if you were asked whether
23 Craty|         mean to say, how should I answer him?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
24 Craty|       giving the appearance of an answer has been already suggested.~
25 Craty|          is very likely the right answer, and something of this kind
26 Craty|       this process, he who has to answer him must at last give up
27 Craty|          is your meaning I should answer, that there have been plenty
28 Craty|            friend Cratylus, is no answer. For if he did begin in