Dialogue

 1 Intro|              younger Socrates, whose name is just mentioned in the
 2 Intro|      dialogue which is called by his name was already in existence;
 3 Intro|             was a real person, whose name survived in the next generation.
 4 Intro|      dialogue which is called by his name. The Cratylus presents a
 5 Intro|      Socrates, who does not know his name, recognizes him as the son
 6 Intro|            but all things become; no name can detain or fix them.
 7 Intro|         remains unmoved which is the name for all,’~as Parmenides
 8 Intro|          first syllable of Socrates’ name is SO. But what is SO? Two
 9 Intro|            know the syllables of the name Theaetetus, but not the
10 Intro|            the syllable ‘The’ in the name Theaetetus, yet he may be
11 Intro|             the same syllable in the name Theodorus, and in learning
12 Intro|        letters and syllables of your name in order, still he would
13 Intro|              feeble utterance of the name by which he is taught to
14 Intro|          Soon he learns to utter the name when the object is no longer
15 Intro|           later years he sees in the name only the universal or class
16 Intro|           away into nothingness, the name or the conception or both
17 Intro|               local habitation and a name’ to the infinite and inconceivable.~
18 Intro|             but the change is one of name only, and nothing is gained
19 Intro| philosophical imagination is another name for reason finding an expression
20 Intro|           the other. So the sight or name of a house may recall to
21  Thea|            son is he?~THEODORUS: The name of his father I have forgotten,
22  Thea|         youth, but I do not know his name; he is the son of Euphronius
23  Thea|         Theaetetus, Socrates, is his name; but I rather think that
24  Thea|             can a man understand the name of anything, when he does
25  Thea|            is, to give in answer the name of some art or science is
26  Thea|           include them all under one name or class.~SOCRATES: And
27  Thea|            the reason of this latter name being, that they are commensurable
28  Thea|               brave and burly, whose name was Phaenarete?~THEAETETUS:
29  Thea|              procuresses, which is a name given to those who join
30  Thea|            Clearly.~SOCRATES: In the name of the Graces, what an almighty
31  Thea|         rightly call anything by any name, such as great or small,
32  Thea|               or any other detaining name to be used, in the language
33  Thea|          into new forms; nor can any name fix or detain them; he who
34  Thea|             man,’ or ‘stone,’ or any name of an animal or of a class.
35  Thea|            me, Socrates, in heaven’s name, is this, after all, not
36  Thea|            would be playing with the name ‘good,’ and would not touch
37  Thea|            ought not to speak of the name, but of the thing which
38  Thea|            is contemplated under the name.~THEODORUS: Right.~SOCRATES:
39  Thea|        remains unmoved, which is the name for the all.’~This is the
40  Thea|              standing still, can the name of any colour be rightly
41  Thea|            two processes by the same name, when there is so great
42  Thea|            right.~SOCRATES: And what name would you give to seeing,
43  Thea|           them perceiving—what other name could be given to them?~
44  Thea|              would be the collective name of them?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
45  Thea|              what we express by this name?~THEAETETUS: What?~SOCRATES:
46  Thea|            explanation; you can only name them, but no predicate can
47  Thea|              they have nothing but a name, and the things which are
48  Thea|             the first syllable of my name:—Theaetetus, he says, what
49  Thea|             first syllable of my own name; must not he who knows the
50  Thea|           grammatical account of the name of Theaetetus, and yet could
51  Thea|              not the letters of your name—that would be true opinion,
52  Thea|          time of learning writes the name of Theaetetus, and thinks
53  Thea|          again, meaning to write the name of Theododorus, thinks that
54  Thea|             fourth syllables of your name?~THEAETETUS: He may.~SOCRATES: