Dialogue

 1 Craty|     or burning, and a natural instrument with which men cut or burn,
 2 Craty|    process, and with a proper instrument. We cut with a knife, we
 3 Craty|       to me to be the general instrument which the legislator has
 4 Craty|       their aid, of which the instrument is not the tongue only,
 5 Craty|       or shortening the vocal instrument, by greater or less stress,
 6 Craty|   please, and with any chance instrument; but we cut with the proper
 7 Craty|    but we cut with the proper instrument only, and according to the
 8 Craty|    natural way, and the right instrument the natural instrument.~
 9 Craty|  right instrument the natural instrument.~HERMOGENES: True.~SOCRATES:
10 Craty|  spoken, and with the natural instrument? Any other mode of speaking
11 Craty|    process, and with a proper instrument, and not at our pleasure:
12 Craty|       good: then a name is an instrument?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~
13 Craty|     that I ask, ‘What sort of instrument is a shuttle?’ And you answer, ‘
14 Craty|    And you answer, ‘A weaving instrument.’~HERMOGENES: Well.~SOCRATES:
15 Craty|      Regarding the name as an instrument, what do we do when we name?~
16 Craty|   SOCRATES: Then a name is an instrument of teaching and of distinguishing
17 Craty|        And the shuttle is the instrument of the weaver?~HERMOGENES:
18 Craty|      a man has discovered the instrument which is naturally adapted
19 Craty|     he may be making the same instrument for the same purpose, make
20 Craty|       may vary, and still the instrument may be equally good of whatever
21 Craty|  through all this, and is the instrument of creation in all, and
22 Craty|       to me to be the general instrument expressing all motion (kinesis).
23 Craty| imposer of names an excellent instrument for the expression of motion;