Dialogue

 1 Craty|         mysteries of which he is speaking, and he professes a kind
 2 Craty|          his observation that in speaking of the Gods we are only
 3 Craty|          of the Gods we are only speaking of our names of them, occur
 4 Craty|        and tentative, when he is speaking of actual phenomena. To
 5 Craty|         true of all actions. And speaking is a kind of action, and
 6 Craty|          and naming is a kind of speaking, and we must name according
 7 Craty|          Not that I am literally speaking of ourselves, but I mean
 8 Craty|        language, but writing and speaking, and particularly great
 9 Craty|          the origin of language.~Speaking is one of the simplest natural
10 Craty|         understanding but not of speaking, while on the other hand,
11 Craty|        of which we were just now speaking.~Whether we regard language
12 Craty|     conscious or unconscious? In speaking or writing have we present
13 Craty|    exercised any influence worth speaking of on a language: such a
14 Craty|     should prefer his own way of speaking to that of others, unless
15 Craty|     speaks in the natural way of speaking, and as things ought to
16 Craty|    instrument? Any other mode of speaking will result in error and
17 Craty|          is not naming a part of speaking? for in giving names men
18 Craty|        is true.~SOCRATES: And if speaking is a sort of action and
19 Craty|         of a horse a horse; I am speaking only of the ordinary course
20 Craty|        the justice of which I am speaking is also the cause of the
21 Craty|          Not that I am literally speaking of ourselves, but I was
22 Craty| Hermogenes, would he not be even speaking falsely? For there may be
23 Craty|          Did you ever observe in speaking that all the words which