Dialogue

 1 Craty|      expression of a thing, or a mere inarticulate sound (a fallacy
 2 Craty|         foolish; and this is not mere appearance but reality.
 3 Craty|          is the true answer. But mere antiquity may often prevent
 4 Craty|       Hermogenes and himself are mere sciolists, but Cratylus
 5 Craty|    should say that they would be mere unmeaning sounds, like the
 6 Craty|       words have the same laws.’ Mere consistency is no test of
 7 Craty| expressively distinguish between mere imitation and the symbolical
 8 Craty| confusion of ideas with facts—of mere possibilities, and generalities,
 9 Craty|         think without words is a mere illusion,—they are always
10 Craty|      accompany them; between the mere mechanical cohesion of sounds
11 Craty|     though very far from being a mere chaos, is indefinite, admits
12 Craty|        the word and the use of a mere synonym for it,—e.g. felicity
13 Craty|   greater part of nature to be a mere receptacle; and they say
14 Craty|         SOCRATES: Of such as are mere negatives I hardly think