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Dialogue
1 Craty| is a kind of action, and naming is a kind of speaking, and 2 Craty| legislator in his work of naming, be he who knows how to 3 Craty| imitate sheep or goats without naming them. What, then, is a name? 4 Craty| nature of things? ‘Yes.’ And naming is an art, and the artists 5 Craty| you.~SOCRATES: And is not naming a part of speaking? for 6 Craty| relation to acts, is not naming also a sort of action?~HERMOGENES: 7 Craty| my judgment, would not be naming. Let me put the matter as 8 Craty| SOCRATES: But the art of naming appears not to be concerned 9 Craty| Certainly.~SOCRATES: And naming is an art, and has artificers?~