Dialogue

 1 Craty|        elements. But why does he admit etymologies which are absurd,
 2 Craty|       have advanced; for you now admit that there is a correctness
 3 Craty|     worse names. Cratylus cannot admit that one name is better
 4 Craty|        not? ‘Yes.’ Then you will admit that there is a right or
 5 Craty|      retain a meaning. Better to admit this, that we may not be
 6 Craty|    smoothness;—and this you will admit to be their natural meaning.
 7 Craty|          of primary words do not admit of derivation from foreign
 8 Craty|       language, he is willing to admit that they are subject to
 9 Craty|      other laws of human action, admit of exceptions. The answer
10 Craty|          and we are compelled to admit with Hermogenes in Plato
11 Craty|          you ever been driven to admit that there was no such thing
12 Craty|      have we shall be obliged to admit that the people who imitate
13 Craty|     meeting-point, for you would admit that the name is not the
14 Craty|          but have the courage to admit that one name may be correctly
15 Craty|         think that we had better admit this, lest we be punished
16 Craty| formation of the word: you would admit that?~CRATYLUS: There would
17 Craty|         at all.~SOCRATES: Do you admit a name to be the representation
18 Craty|        do.~SOCRATES: Then if you admit that primitive or first
19 Craty|    beyond you and me. But we may admit so much, that the knowledge