Dialogue

 1 Craty|     end. His idea of literary art is not the absolute proportion
 2 Craty|    work not of chance, but of art; the dialectician is the
 3 Craty|      is not opposed either to art or to law. But vocal imitation,
 4 Craty| natural meaning. Thus nature, art, chance, all combine in
 5 Craty|      arts. Words are works of art which may be equally made
 6 Craty|        Yes.’ And naming is an art, and the artists are legislators,
 7 Craty|   argued, could men devoid of art have contrived a structure
 8 Craty|      an element of design and art enters into language. The
 9 Craty|     applied in philosophy and art; they are used as symbols
10 Craty|       other work of nature or art, is often in like manner
11 Craty|        whereas probably every art and part of wisdom had been
12 Craty|        and the like, in which art has imitated nature, ‘words
13 Craty|     of nature goes far beyond art, and it is complicated by
14 Craty|      long time to perfect the art of writing, and another
15 Craty|   meaning of the word techne (art), for example.~HERMOGENES:
16 Craty|       contrivance) to techne (art) I shall be at the top of
17 Craty|  Certainly.~SOCRATES: But the art of naming appears not to
18 Craty|   shall we make speech by the art of the namer or the rhetorician,
19 Craty| rhetorician, or by some other art. Not that I am literally
20 Craty|    SOCRATES: And naming is an art, and has artificers?~CRATYLUS:
21 Craty|       SOCRATES: And does this art grow up among men like other
22 Craty|  similars fall under the same art or science; and therefore
23 Craty|     legislators, and that the art which gave names was the
24 Craty|      which gave names was the art of the legislator?~CRATYLUS: