Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|         they given by nature or convention? In the presocratic philosophy
 2 Intro|   things there is an element of convention; but the admission of this
 3 Intro|       human nature on which the convention proceeds. Socrates first
 4 Intro|         an element of chance or convention enters in. There is much
 5 Intro|     require to be helped out by convention. But still the true name
 6 Intro|       agreement: we have made a convention that the rho shall mean
 7 Intro|      the rho shall mean s and a convention may indicate by the unlike
 8 Intro|   numbers unless you allow that convention is used? Imitation is a
 9 Intro|       has to be supplemented by convention, which is another poor thing;
10 Intro|       another ‘poor creature,’— convention. But he does not see that ‘
11 Intro|        by another poor creature convention.’ But the poor creature
12 Intro|           But the poor creature convention in the end proves too much
13 Text | correctness in names other than convention and agreement; any name
14 Text |      anything by nature; all is convention and habit of the users;—
15 Text |      intended by them, and that convention is the only principle; and
16 Text |        you abide by our present convention, or make a new and opposite
17 Text |          And what is custom but convention? I utter a sound which I
18 Text |      true, then you have made a convention with yourself, and the correctness
19 Text |       of a name turns out to be convention, since letters which are
20 Text |        sanctioned by custom and convention. And even supposing that
21 Text |         distinguish custom from convention ever so much, still you
22 Text |       consent), then custom and convention must be supposed to contribute
23 Text |       allow that which you term convention and agreement to have authority
24 Text |        by the mechanical aid of convention with a view to correctness;


Gorgias
   Part
25 Intro|         be a law of nature. For convention says that ‘injustice is
26 Text |          but only conventional. Convention and nature are generally


Phaedrus
   Part
27 Text |     from the yoke of custom and convention.~PHAEDRUS: True.~SOCRATES:


The Republic
   Book
28 7    |   imagine that such a fabric of convention can ever become science? ~