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Dialogue
1 Craty| the explanation of this is custom or agreement: we have made 2 Craty| the memory of a disused custom; but we cannot safely argue 3 Craty| limits of science or of custom, seem to forget that freedom 4 Craty| may have introduced a new custom into the formation or pronunciation 5 Craty| imitated by others, and the custom, or form, or accent, or 6 Craty| definite sounds recognized by custom as the expressions of things 7 Craty| I think, is a very good custom, and one which I should 8 Craty| with Hestia, according to custom?~HERMOGENES: Yes, that will 9 Craty| the explanation of that is custom.~SOCRATES: And what is custom 10 Craty| custom.~SOCRATES: And what is custom but convention? I utter 11 Craty| if they are sanctioned by custom and convention. And even 12 Craty| supposing that you distinguish custom from convention ever so 13 Craty| signification of words is given by custom and not by likeness, for 14 Craty| and not by likeness, for custom may indicate by the unlike 15 Craty| silence gives consent), then custom and convention must be supposed