(...) The Seventh Letter
    Part
501 Text |               For that which has the name “round,” “annular,” or, “
502 Text |       opposite. We say also that the name is not a thing of permanence
503 Text |            be less permanent (than a name). Again with regard to the


The Sophist
    Part
504 Intro|      dialogue which is called by his name. Theaetetus himself is not
505 Intro|            term ‘Sophist’ is not the name of a particular class, and
506 Intro|          possession of an honourable name which they have assumed,
507 Intro|          professes has already a bad name; and the words of the young
508 Intro|              Sophists having an evil name; that, whether deserved
509 Intro|           agreed, he says, about the name Sophist, but we may not
510 Intro|            desires to have a general name, which shall distinguish
511 Intro|          identify them; but then the name will be either the name
512 Intro|              name will be either the name of nothing or of itself,
513 Intro|              or of itself, i.e. of a name. Again, the notion of being
514 Intro|              which are worthy of the name are not mere opinions or
515 Intro|            described under a similar name is a figure. Freedom and
516 Intro|            logical skeleton with the name of philosophy and almost
517 Text |               and assign one to each name?~THEODORUS: I dare say that
518 Text |            are only agreed about the name, but of the thing to which
519 Text |              which we both apply the name possibly you have one notion
520 Text |             and not merely about the name minus the definition. Now
521 Text |     appropriately called by a single name.~THEAETETUS: What do you
522 Text |            you mean? And what is the name?~STRANGER: He who brings
523 Text |             us sum them up under the name of productive or creative
524 Text |              Yes, that is the proper name.~STRANGER: Seeing, then,
525 Text |           force may have the general name of hunting?~THEAETETUS:
526 Text |             things having no special name, except some sorts of diving,
527 Text |            the water has the general name of fishing.~THEAETETUS:
528 Text |             when summed up under one name, may be called striking,
529 Text |     Theaetetus, can find some better name?~THEAETETUS: Never mind
530 Text |           THEAETETUS: Never mind the name—what you suggest will do
531 Text |             is called by the general name of barbing, because the
532 Text |              rods:—What is the right name of that mode of fishing,
533 Text |     understanding not only about the name of the angler’s art, but
534 Text |     Certainly not unskilled, for his name, as, indeed, you imply,
535 Text |           whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence.~
536 Text |             fairly called by another name?~THEAETETUS: To be sure.~
537 Text |            STRANGER: And what is the name? Will you tell me?~THEAETETUS:
538 Text |            as I conceive, the proper name for the class described.~
539 Text |             you not call by the same name him who buys up knowledge
540 Text |      learning must be called by some name germane to the matter?~THEAETETUS:
541 Text |             Of course.~STRANGER: The name of art-seller corresponds
542 Text |             must try and tell me the name of the other.~THEAETETUS:
543 Text |             we are seeking; no other name can possibly be right.~STRANGER:
544 Text |         properly called by some such name as violent.~THEAETETUS:
545 Text |         THEAETETUS: Yes, that is the name.~STRANGER: And of disputation,
546 Text |          hitherto had no distinctive name, and does not deserve to
547 Text |          each of these two classes a name.~THEAETETUS: Let us do so.~
548 Text |       THEAETETUS: That is the common name for it.~STRANGER: But now
549 Text |             not that art to have one name?~THEAETETUS: And what is
550 Text |          THEAETETUS: And what is the name of the art?~STRANGER: The
551 Text |          mean.~STRANGER: There is no name for the first kind of separation;
552 Text |              the better, I do know a name.~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
553 Text |          comprehended under a single name.~THEAETETUS: What are they,
554 Text |              they, and what is their name?~STRANGER: There is the
555 Text |              question concerning the name which was to comprehend
556 Text |            allowed to have a general name for all other purifications,
557 Text |     THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER: What name, then, shall be given to
558 Text |         professor of any art has one name and many kinds of knowledge,
559 Text |           things which have the same name with them; and he can deceive
560 Text |          THEAETETUS: Let that be the name.~STRANGER: And what shall
561 Text |           and yet call by the single name of image, as though it were
562 Text |          that all things are many in name, but in nature one; this
563 Text |         perhaps you mean to give the name of ‘being’ to both of them
564 Text |           irrational to admit that a name is anything?~THEAETETUS:
565 Text |         STRANGER: To distinguish the name from the thing, implies
566 Text |            yet he who identifies the name with the thing will be compelled
567 Text |      compelled to say that it is the name of nothing, or if he says
568 Text |            if he says that it is the name of something, even then
569 Text |             something, even then the name will only be the name of
570 Text |            the name will only be the name of a name, and of nothing
571 Text |           will only be the name of a name, and of nothing else.~THEAETETUS:
572 Text |         unity, will represent a mere name.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
573 Text |       affection from another, by the name of that other.~THEAETETUS:
574 Text |            them their own particular name, and hence there are many
575 Text |           that this has or has not a name?~THEAETETUS: It has; for
576 Text |       connexion of words we give the name of discourse.~THEAETETUS:
577 Text |             only, have you any other name by which to call it but
578 Text |    THEAETETUS: There can be no other name.~STRANGER: And when opinion
579 Text |              voice, imitation is the name for this part of the phantastic
580 Text |             and giving it a suitable name.~THEAETETUS: Let us do as
581 Text |               Can we find a suitable name for each of them? This is
582 Text |              the wise he will have a name which is formed by an adaptation
583 Text |           word sophos. What shall we name him? I am pretty sure that
584 Text |       STRANGER: Shall we bind up his name as we did before, making


The Statesman
    Part
585 Intro|            namesake in nothing but a name. The dramatic character
586 Intro|            Socrates remarks that the name of the one and the face
587 Intro|       comprehended under the general name of beasts. This is the sort
588 Intro|          well. Having remodelled the name, we may subdivide as before,
589 Intro|              weaving differs only in name, as the political differs
590 Intro|            governments worthy of the name? Is not government a science,
591 Intro|           the Jews, law was a sacred name, the gift of God, the bond
592 Intro|           feeding mankind worthy the name.’ There is a similar depth
593 Text |            the other is called by my name. And we should always be
594 Text |       quarrel with any one about the name.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly
595 Text |        leaving the rest to receive a name from some one else? For
596 Text |        leaving the discussion of the name,—can you see a way in which
597 Text |             include under the single name of ‘barbarians,’ and because
598 Text |            and because they have one name they are supposed to be
599 Text |          rest under another separate name, you might say that here
600 Text |            you had given it a single name. Whereas you would make
601 Text |              call them by the common name of brutes.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
602 Text |           make the definition of the name of the Statesman’s art.~
603 Text |          from the earth and have the name of earth-born, and so the
604 Text |           Statesman; we should use a name which is common to them
605 Text |             True, if there be such a name.~STRANGER: Why, is not ‘
606 Text |              which was worthy of the name, or at least, if there were,
607 Text |           saying, was to remodel the name, so as to have the notion
608 Text |            always called by the same name.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
609 Text |             clothes, differs only in name from this art of clothing,
610 Text |        woollen defences, and has the name of weaving.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
611 Text |          whole of this class has one name, because it is intended
612 Text |        fairly comprehended under one name?~YOUNG SOCRATES: What is
613 Text |           STRANGER: Plaything is the name.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
614 Text |        Certainly.~STRANGER: That one name may be fitly predicated
615 Text |           unless you have any better name to offer. This, however,
616 Text |               which is called by the name of democracy?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
617 Text |       ordinary language has the same name.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
618 Text |            law, we give him the same name, whether he rules with opinion
619 Text |      possessing knowledge rules, his name will surely be the same—
620 Text |              which has an auspicious name, and oligarchy; and democracy
621 Text |              as before, although the name is now discovered to have
622 Text |        Sophists.~YOUNG SOCRATES: The name of Sophist after many windings
623 Text |            we would describe under a name characteristic of their
624 Text |           too; and when we apply the name of which I speak as the
625 Text |         predicate not courage, but a name indicative of order.~YOUNG
626 Text |              obtains the ignominious name of silliness.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
    Part
627 Intro|             the Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist, half-enthusiast.
628 Intro|               because under the same name actions of the most different
629 Intro|              which are called by his name, and also with the slight
630 Text |             true in this to your old name, which, however deserved,
631 Text |             to their own son, and in name only related to him; and
632 Text |           union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double
633 Text |       separated off and receives the name of the whole, but the other
634 Text |            are not called lovers—the name of the whole is appropriated
635 Text |             of leaving behind them a name which shall be eternal.
636 Text |             who are deserving of the name inventor. But the greatest


Theaetetus
    Part
637 Intro|              younger Socrates, whose name is just mentioned in the
638 Intro|      dialogue which is called by his name was already in existence;
639 Intro|             was a real person, whose name survived in the next generation.
640 Intro|      dialogue which is called by his name. The Cratylus presents a
641 Intro|      Socrates, who does not know his name, recognizes him as the son
642 Intro|            but all things become; no name can detain or fix them.
643 Intro|         remains unmoved which is the name for all,’~as Parmenides
644 Intro|          first syllable of Socrates’ name is SO. But what is SO? Two
645 Intro|            know the syllables of the name Theaetetus, but not the
646 Intro|            the syllable ‘The’ in the name Theaetetus, yet he may be
647 Intro|             the same syllable in the name Theodorus, and in learning
648 Intro|        letters and syllables of your name in order, still he would
649 Intro|              feeble utterance of the name by which he is taught to
650 Intro|          Soon he learns to utter the name when the object is no longer
651 Intro|           later years he sees in the name only the universal or class
652 Intro|           away into nothingness, the name or the conception or both
653 Intro|               local habitation and a name’ to the infinite and inconceivable.~
654 Intro|             but the change is one of name only, and nothing is gained
655 Intro| philosophical imagination is another name for reason finding an expression
656 Intro|           the other. So the sight or name of a house may recall to
657 Text |            son is he?~THEODORUS: The name of his father I have forgotten,
658 Text |         youth, but I do not know his name; he is the son of Euphronius
659 Text |         Theaetetus, Socrates, is his name; but I rather think that
660 Text |             can a man understand the name of anything, when he does
661 Text |            is, to give in answer the name of some art or science is
662 Text |           include them all under one name or class.~SOCRATES: And
663 Text |            the reason of this latter name being, that they are commensurable
664 Text |               brave and burly, whose name was Phaenarete?~THEAETETUS:
665 Text |              procuresses, which is a name given to those who join
666 Text |            Clearly.~SOCRATES: In the name of the Graces, what an almighty
667 Text |         rightly call anything by any name, such as great or small,
668 Text |               or any other detaining name to be used, in the language
669 Text |          into new forms; nor can any name fix or detain them; he who
670 Text |             man,’ or ‘stone,’ or any name of an animal or of a class.
671 Text |            me, Socrates, in heaven’s name, is this, after all, not
672 Text |            would be playing with the name ‘good,’ and would not touch
673 Text |            ought not to speak of the name, but of the thing which
674 Text |            is contemplated under the name.~THEODORUS: Right.~SOCRATES:
675 Text |        remains unmoved, which is the name for the all.’~This is the
676 Text |              standing still, can the name of any colour be rightly
677 Text |            two processes by the same name, when there is so great
678 Text |            right.~SOCRATES: And what name would you give to seeing,
679 Text |           them perceiving—what other name could be given to them?~
680 Text |              would be the collective name of them?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
681 Text |              what we express by this name?~THEAETETUS: What?~SOCRATES:
682 Text |            explanation; you can only name them, but no predicate can
683 Text |              they have nothing but a name, and the things which are
684 Text |             the first syllable of my name:—Theaetetus, he says, what
685 Text |             first syllable of my own name; must not he who knows the
686 Text |           grammatical account of the name of Theaetetus, and yet could
687 Text |              not the letters of your name—that would be true opinion,
688 Text |          time of learning writes the name of Theaetetus, and thinks
689 Text |          again, meaning to write the name of Theododorus, thinks that
690 Text |             fourth syllables of your name?~THEAETETUS: He may.~SOCRATES:


Timaeus
    Part
691 Intro|            under the dominion of his name, while that which was truly
692 Intro|             to the soul and have the name of sensations. Uniting with
693 Intro|            to be detained by any one name; wherefore we are compelled
694 Intro|            blood—to this we give the name of red. A bright element
695 Intro|            one in many has given the name of bile. The various kinds
696 Intro|               why have they the same name?’—is an argument not easily
697 Intro|              no place, hardly even a name, in ancient Greek philosophy.
698 Intro|             a work passing under the name of Philolaus there can be
699 Text |           any other more appropriate name—assuming the name, I am
700 Text |        appropriate name—assuming the name, I am asking a question
701 Text |              stars, and they have no name for them, and do not measure
702 Text |           part of them worthy of the name immortal, which is called
703 Text |    consequently received the general name of ‘sensations,’ which they
704 Text |           all things, or by whatever name they are to be called, for
705 Text |            alone to be called by the name ‘this’ or ‘that’; but that
706 Text |           nothing at all, and only a name? Here is a question which
707 Text |           another nature of the same name with it, and like to it,
708 Text |         whole class is called by the name of juices or saps. The unequal
709 Text |           included under the general name of honey: and, lastly, there
710 Text |         formed, to which we give the name of pottery. Sometimes also
711 Text |              hence the origin of the name (thepmos, Kepma). Now, the
712 Text |          this war and convulsion the name of shivering and trembling
713 Text |      tendency we call by an opposite name. Such are the causes which
714 Text |            to every man, and has the name sweet. But enough of this.~
715 Text |           varieties of smell have no name, and they have not many,
716 Text |            are called by the general name of colours, and are a flame
717 Text |          blood, to which we give the name of red. A bright hue mingled
718 Text |            he called them all by the name ‘marrow’; and to these,
719 Text |            one nature deserving of a name, has assigned the common
720 Text |              has assigned the common name of bile. But the other kinds