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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| restored democracy, were the names of Alcibiades, Critias,
2 Text | know and cannot tell the names of my accusers; unless in
Charmides
Part
3 Text | write or read, your own names only, or did you write your
4 Text | you write your enemies’ names as well as your own and
5 Text | which Prodicus draws about names. Now I have no objection
6 Text | objection to your giving names any signification which
7 Text | to which the imposer of names gave this name of temperance
Cratylus
Part
8 Intro| consciousness and had not found names for themselves, or terms
9 Intro| expounds the doctrine that names are conventional; like the
10 Intro| are conventional; like the names of slaves, they may be given
11 Intro| that things have by nature names; for nature is not opposed
12 Intro| embodied in words. Of the names of the ideas, he would have
13 Intro| said, as he says of the names of the Gods, that we know
14 Intro| out of Homer, about the names of Hector’s son, or when
15 Intro| his first notions about names to be reckless and ridiculous.
16 Intro| are only speaking of our names of them, occur among these
17 Intro| correctness, or principle of names?~After illustrating the
18 Intro| truth or correctness of names can only be ascertained
19 Intro| etymology. The truth of names is to be found in the analysis
20 Intro| into heroes; ‘the givers of names were like some philosophers
21 Intro| higher than a knowledge of names, and that there can be no
22 Intro| have been arguing about names; the former maintaining
23 Intro| truth or correctness of names? Socrates replies, that
24 Intro| knowledge, and the nature of names is a considerable part of
25 Intro| there is no principle in names; they may be changed, as
26 Intro| changed, as we change the names of slaves, whenever we please,
27 Intro| and the least parts are names, and therefore names may
28 Intro| are names, and therefore names may be true or false. Would
29 Intro| to anything, and as many names as he pleases; and would
30 Intro| pleases; and would all these names be always true at the time
31 Intro| which he can conceive that names are correct; and he appeals
32 Intro| name? Does not the law give names, and does not the teacher
33 Intro| materials and forms of which names are made in Hellas and other
34 Intro| who knows how to use the names—he who can ask and answer
35 Intro| legislator how he is to impose names; for to express the ideal
36 Intro| this natural correctness of names.’~Indeed I cannot; but I
37 Intro| there is a correctness of names, and that not every one
38 Intro| Homer, who distinguishes the names given by Gods and men to
39 Intro| be right in their use of names. And this is not the only
40 Intro| that Hector’s son had two names—~‘Hector called him Scamandrius,
41 Intro| father saved the city. The names Astyanax and Hector, moreover,
42 Intro| retained. For example; the names of letters, whether vowels
43 Intro| resembles the parent, then the names no longer agree. This may
44 Intro| how shall we proceed? What names will afford the most crucial
45 Intro| more explanations of the names of the Gods, like that excellent
46 Intro| one of Zeus.’ The truest names of the Gods are those which
47 Intro| them, but only about the names which they usually bear.
48 Intro| among the first inventors of names, both in our own and in
49 Intro| greater marvels. For the names Cronos and Rhea cannot have
50 Intro| things, is indicated in names. ‘No, I never did.’ Phronesis
51 Intro| help me in the search?~All names, whether primary or secondary,
52 Intro| then, how do the primary names indicate anything? And let
53 Intro| that we may consider the names about which you were asking.
54 Intro| that God gave the first names, and therefore they are
55 Intro| the like; the imposer of names perceived that the tongue
56 Intro| Hermogenes, of the correctness of names; and I should like to hear
57 Intro| means by the fitness of names?’ To this appeal, Cratylus
58 Intro| Cratylus agree with him that names teach us the nature of things? ‘
59 Intro| and make better or worse names. Cratylus cannot admit that
60 Intro| another; they are either true names, or they are not names at
61 Intro| true names, or they are not names at all; and when he is asked
62 Intro| you would acknowledge that names, as well as pictures, are
63 Intro| man or woman:—why may not names then equally give a representation
64 Intro| representation, but denies that names can. Socrates argues, that
65 Intro| or a wrong assignment of names, and if of names, then of
66 Intro| assignment of names, and if of names, then of verbs and nouns;
67 Intro| name still. The artist of names, that is, the legislator,
68 Intro| to be 10, but denies that names are of this purely quantitative
69 Intro| counterparts, why should names be? if they were, they would
70 Intro| like. How could there be names for all the numbers unless
71 Intro| is the use and force of names? ‘The use of names, Socrates,
72 Intro| force of names? ‘The use of names, Socrates, is to inform,
73 Intro| inform, and he who knows names knows things.’ Do you mean
74 Intro| mean that the discovery of names is the same as the discovery
75 Intro| degree of deception about names? He who first gave names,
76 Intro| names? He who first gave names, gave them according to
77 Intro| pragmasin. Thus the bad names are framed on the same principle
78 Intro| Cratylus; and is correctness of names to be determined by the
79 Intro| that the legislator gives names; and therefore we must suppose
80 Intro| knows the things which he names: but how can he have learnt
81 Intro| have learnt things from names before there were any names? ‘
82 Intro| names before there were any names? ‘I believe, Socrates, that
83 Intro| first gave things their names, and that these were necessarily
84 Intro| these were necessarily true names.’ Then how came the giver
85 Intro| Then how came the giver of names to contradict himself, and
86 Intro| himself, and to make some names expressive of rest, and
87 Intro| of motion?...But if some names are true and others false,
88 Intro| things may be known without names; for names, as we have several
89 Intro| known without names; for names, as we have several times
90 Intro| is not to be derived from names; and though I do not doubt
91 Intro| inventors of language gave names, under the idea that all
92 Intro| his mind, in the power of names: he will not condemn himself
93 Intro| is a natural fitness in names. He only insists that this
94 Intro| process by which proper names were converted into common,
95 Intro| enquiries to the imposers of names...In this and other passages
96 Intro| remark that although the names of objects were originally
97 Intro| objects were originally proper names, as the grammarian or logician
98 Intro| forgetfulness of proper names (more commonly than of other
99 Text | Cratylus has been arguing about names; he says that they are natural
100 Text | truth or correctness of names, which I would far sooner
101 Text | good.’ And the knowledge of names is a great part of knowledge.
102 Text | about the correctness of names. But, indeed, I have only
103 Text | principle of correctness in names other than convention and
104 Text | we frequently change the names of our slaves, and the newly-imposed
105 Text | propositions may be true and false, names may be true and false?~HERMOGENES:
106 Text | And will there be so many names of each thing as everybody
107 Text | are? and will they be true names at the time of uttering
108 Text | conceive no correctness of names other than this; you give
109 Text | countries there are different names for the same things; Hellenes
110 Text | barbarians in their use of names, and the several Hellenic
111 Text | the things differ as the names differ? and are they relative
112 Text | speaking? for in giving names men speak.~HERMOGENES: That
113 Text | would lead us to infer that names ought to be given according
114 Text | a similar question about names: will you answer me? Regarding
115 Text | least say who gives us the names which we use?~HERMOGENES:
116 Text | name, but only a maker of names; and this is the legislator,
117 Text | does the legislator make names? and to what does he look?
118 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: Then, as to names: ought not our legislator
119 Text | and to make and give all names with a view to the ideal
120 Text | the legislator is to give names, and the dialectician must
121 Text | must be his director if the names are to be rightly given?~
122 Text | say that this giving of names can be no such light matter
123 Text | saying that things have names by nature, and that not
124 Text | every man is an artificer of names, but he only who looks to
125 Text | term the natural fitness of names.~SOCRATES: My good Hermogenes,
126 Text | we have discovered that names have by nature a truth,
127 Text | truth or correctness of names? That, if you care to know,
128 Text | Protagoras about the fitness of names.~HERMOGENES: But how inconsistent
129 Text | Homer say anything about names, and what does he say?~SOCRATES:
130 Text | distinguishes the different names which Gods and men give
131 Text | about the correctness of names? For the Gods must clearly
132 Text | their right and natural names; do you not think so?~HERMOGENES:
133 Text | understanding of you and me; but the names of Scamandrius and Astyanax,
134 Text | affirms to have been the names of Hector’s son, are more
135 Text | the more correct of the names given to Hector’s son—Astyanax
136 Text | more likely to give correct names?~HERMOGENES: I should say
137 Text | about the correctness of names.~HERMOGENES: I assure you
138 Text | illustrate my meaning by the names of letters, which you know
139 Text | upsilon, omicron, omega; the names of the rest, whether vowels
140 Text | how to give the letters names.~HERMOGENES: I believe you
141 Text | As was just now said, the names of Hector and Astyanax have
142 Text | with the letters of their names has Archepolis (ruler of
143 Text | And there are many other names which just mean ‘king.’
144 Text | Again, there are several names for a general, as, for example,
145 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: The same names, then, ought to be assigned
146 Text | of God), or any of these names: if names are correctly
147 Text | or any of these names: if names are correctly given, his
148 Text | finish the investigation of names—that will be the way; but
149 Text | rest of the enquiry about names.~SOCRATES: Then let us proceed;
150 Text | the enquiry? Are there any names which witness of themselves
151 Text | have a natural fitness? The names of heroes and of men in
152 Text | after ancestors with whose names, as we were saying, they
153 Text | finding correctness in the names of immutable essences;—there
154 Text | occasionally in giving them names.~HERMOGENES: I think so,
155 Text | letters in words, and give names as we please and change
156 Text | more explanations of the names of the Gods, like that which
157 Text | their natures or of the names which they give themselves;
158 Text | but we are sure that the names by which they call themselves,
159 Text | them by any sort or kind of names or patronymics which they
160 Text | men in giving them these names,—in this there can be small
161 Text | Hermogenes, the first imposers of names must surely have been considerable
162 Text | attribute the imposition of names. Even in foreign names,
163 Text | of names. Even in foreign names, if you analyze them, a
164 Text | inferring that he who gave the names of Cronos and Rhea to the
165 Text | Heracleitus? Is the giving of the names of streams to both of them
166 Text | ignorance of the nature of names. But they go changing the
167 Text | explanation of both these names; the serious explanation
168 Text | dianoia), and the maker of names appears to have had a singular
169 Text | demonstrate the fitness of these names according to the Hellenic
170 Text | the seasons), and the two names of the year, eniautos and
171 Text | within is one, but has two names, two words etos and eniautos
172 Text | is a tremendous class of names which you are disinterring;
173 Text | that the primeval givers of names were undoubtedly like too
174 Text | The consideration of the names which I mentioned has led
175 Text | not observe that in the names which have been just cited,
176 Text | ground. There are a good many names generally thought to be
177 Text | you know that the original names have been long ago buried
178 Text | letters which you please, names will be too easily made,
179 Text | kalesan) things by their names, and is not mind the beautiful (
180 Text | evident.~SOCRATES: What more names remain to us?~HERMOGENES:
181 Text | Socrates, in the use of names; and when I hear the word
182 Text | praise; and the author of names has not contradicted himself,
183 Text | way?~SOCRATES: To say that names which we do not understand
184 Text | lost in the lapse of ages; names have been so twisted in
185 Text | a person go on analysing names into words, and enquiring
186 Text | stop when he comes to the names which are the elements of
187 Text | the elements of all other names and sentences; for these
188 Text | supposed to be made up of other names? The word agathon (good),
189 Text | SOCRATES: And suppose the names about which you are now
190 Text | the principle of primary names.~HERMOGENES: Let me hear,
191 Text | principle is applicable to all names, primary as well as secondary—
192 Text | they are regarded simply as names, there is no difference
193 Text | Certainly not.~SOCRATES: All the names that we have been explaining
194 Text | much as of the secondary names, is implied in their being
195 Text | is implied in their being names.~HERMOGENES: Surely.~SOCRATES:
196 Text | then how do the primary names which precede analysis show
197 Text | if they are to be real names? And here I will ask you
198 Text | which the vocal imitator names or imitates?~HERMOGENES:
199 Text | the painter were the two names which you gave to the two
200 Text | condition to consider the names ron (stream), ienai (to
201 Text | are these the only primary names, or are there others?~HERMOGENES:
202 Text | things, we shall give them names, and see whether, as in
203 Text | look for the truth of first names. Deprived of this, we must
204 Text | the Gods gave the first names, and therefore they are
205 Text | ignorance of first or primitive names involves an ignorance of
206 Text | lucid explanation of first names, or let him be assured he
207 Text | first notions of original names are truly wild and ridiculous,
208 Text | appeared to the imposer of names an excellent instrument
209 Text | introduced by the giver of names when he wants to imitate
210 Text | and impressing on them names and signs, and out of them
211 Text | Hermogenes, of the truth of names; but I should like to hear
212 Text | that there is a fitness of names, but he never explains what
213 Text | Socrates has been saying about names, or have you something better
214 Text | better theory of the truth of names, you may count me in the
215 Text | is quite true.~SOCRATES: Names, then, are given in order
216 Text | not.~SOCRATES: Then all names are rightly imposed?~CRATYLUS:
217 Text | CRATYLUS: Yes, if they are names at all.~SOCRATES: Well,
218 Text | applied to figures or to names, I call right, and when
219 Text | right, and when applied to names only, true as well as right;
220 Text | wrong, and in the case of names, false as well as wrong.~
221 Text | but not in the case of names—they must be always right.~
222 Text | present. But if I can assign names as well as pictures to objects,
223 Text | such a wrong assignment of names, there may also be a wrong
224 Text | assignment of verbs; and if of names and verbs then of the sentences,
225 Text | whence I infer that some names are well and others ill
226 Text | SOCRATES: Then the artist of names may be sometimes good, or
227 Text | SOCRATES: And this artist of names is called the legislator?~
228 Text | truth in images, and also in names; and not insist that an
229 Text | ridiculous would be the effect of names on things, if they were
230 Text | determine which were the names and which were the realities.~
231 Text | particular instance of the names of the letters.~CRATYLUS:
232 Text | notion of correctness of names, and no longer maintain
233 Text | SOCRATES: Enough then of names which are rightly given.
234 Text | are rightly given. And in names which are incorrectly given,
235 Text | many others, who say that names are conventional, and have
236 Text | letters out of which the first names are composed must also be
237 Text | SOCRATES: No more could names ever resemble any actually
238 Text | the objects of which the names are the imitation: And the
239 Text | friend, that you will find names resembling every individual
240 Text | determining the correctness of names? I quite agree with you
241 Text | you, what is the force of names, and what is the use of
242 Text | them?~CRATYLUS: The use of names, Socrates, as I should imagine,
243 Text | truth is, that he who knows names knows also the things which
244 Text | would say that he who knows names will also know things.~CRATYLUS:
245 Text | according to you, is given us by names. Is it the best sort of
246 Text | them, he who discovers the names discovers also the things;
247 Text | Cratylus, that he who follows names in the search after things,
248 Text | clearly he who first gave names gave them according to his
249 Text | was erroneous, and he gave names according to his conception,
250 Text | else, as I was saying, his names would not be names at all?
251 Text | his names would not be names at all? And you have a clear
252 Text | astonished to find that names are really consistent. And
253 Text | of motion is expressed by names? Do you not conceive that
254 Text | tois pragmasin. Thus the names which in these instances
255 Text | examples in which the giver of names indicates, not that things
256 Text | votes? and is correctness of names the voice of the majority?
257 Text | that the first givers of names in states, both Hellenic
258 Text | that the art which gave names was the art of the legislator?~
259 Text | the givers of the first names, know or not know the things
260 Text | remember, that he who gave names must have known the things
261 Text | that the giver of the first names had also a knowledge of
262 Text | or discovered things from names if the primitive names were
263 Text | from names if the primitive names were not yet given? For,
264 Text | things, is either to discover names for ourselves or to learn
265 Text | only to be known through names, how can we suppose that
266 Text | suppose that the givers of names had knowledge, or were legislators
267 Text | legislators before there were names at all, and therefore before
268 Text | gave things their first names, and that the names which
269 Text | first names, and that the names which are thus given are
270 Text | are necessarily their true names.~SOCRATES: Then how came
271 Text | how came the giver of the names, if he was an inspired being
272 Text | just now that he made some names expressive of rest and others
273 Text | one of the two not to be names at all.~SOCRATES: And which,
274 Text | But if this is a battle of names, some of them asserting
275 Text | For there are no other names to which appeal can be made,
276 Text | which, without employing names, will make clear which of
277 Text | things may be known without names?~CRATYLUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
278 Text | times acknowledged that names rightly given are the likenesses
279 Text | things through the medium of names, and suppose also that you
280 Text | is not to be derived from names. No; they must be studied
281 Text | appearance of such a multitude of names, all tending in the same
282 Text | deny that the givers of names did really give them under
283 Text | his mind in the power of names: neither will he so far
284 Text | neither will he so far trust names or the givers of names as
285 Text | trust names or the givers of names as to be confident in any
Critias
Part
286 Intro| the state. Some of their names, such as Cecrops, Erechtheus,
287 Intro| to explain that the Greek names were given to Solon in an
288 Intro| manner in which traditional names and indications of geography
289 Intro| reason assigned for the Greek names occurring in the Egyptian
290 Intro| most detested of Athenian names to this dialogue, and even
291 Text | order of government; their names are preserved, but their
292 Text | and had heard only the names of the chiefs of the land,
293 Text | about their actions. The names they were willing enough
294 Text | this is the reason why the names of the ancients have been
295 Text | war mentioned most of the names which are recorded prior
296 Text | and Erysichthon, and the names of the women in like manner.
297 Text | should perhaps hear Hellenic names given to foreigners. I will
298 Text | into the meaning of the names, and found that the early
299 Text | the meaning of the several names and when copying them out
300 Text | child. Therefore if you hear names such as are used in this
Euthyphro
Part
301 Intro| author of a philosophy of names, by whose ‘prancing steeds’
The First Alcibiades
Part
302 Pre | dialogues; and mistakes of names are very likely to have
303 Pre | mentioning Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral
Gorgias
Part
304 Intro| not excepting the greatest names of history. Mankind have
305 Intro| proud to be called by their names. (Compare Thucyd.)~Who is
306 Intro| introducing several mythological names and of providing places
307 Intro| are also garnished with names and phrases taken out of
308 Intro| employment of sacred and familiar names, just as mere fragments
309 Text | lawful’ and ‘law’ are the names which are given to the regular
310 Text | me to recall to you the names of those whom you were just
Laches
Part
311 Text | perhaps, become worthy of the names which they bear. They, on
Laws
Book
312 5 | called by these or similar names: they may continue in the
313 5 | and call them by their names, and dedicate to each God
314 6 | rulers shall bring out the names noted down, for all the
315 6 | found not answering to their names at the assembly. the third
316 6 | let them write up their names and make oath that they
317 6 | inscribed on a whited wall the names of the successive archons
318 7 | observed to have given many names which are according to nature
319 7 | their pleasures—the giver of names, whoever he was, assigned
320 9 | severally under their usual names, we will proceed to say
321 9 | them send to Delphi the names of those who are selected,
322 9 | Leaving the question of names, about which we are not
323 10 | below, of which the very names terrify men, and which they
324 11 | not lightly to defile the names of the Gods, after the fashion
325 11 | another, and using foul names, out of words light as air,
326 12 | places, and called by many names; and the office of examiner
327 12 | another, and have received two names, and so of the rest. But
Menexenus
Part
328 Pre | dialogues; and mistakes of names are very likely to have
329 Pre | mentioning Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral
330 Text | rulers and teachers, whose names are well known, and need
331 Text | government which receives various names, according to the fancies
Meno
Part
332 Intro| philosophy has had many names and taken many forms, and
333 Intro| described under the same names.~A like remark applies to
334 Text | What are they? tell me the names of them, as I would tell
335 Text | as I would tell you the names of the other figures if
Parmenides
Part
336 Intro| illustrated by the case of names: when you repeat the same
337 Text | which they derive their names; that similars, for example,
338 Text | sphere and have the same names with them, are likewise
339 Text | ideas which have the same names with them, but belong to
340 Text | illustration the case of names: You give a name to a thing?~
Phaedo
Part
341 Intro| Republic), passing under the names of Musaeus and Orpheus in
342 Text | which are named by the same names and may be called equal
343 Text | in them and derive their names from them, Socrates, if
Phaedrus
Part
344 Intro| many forms and has many bad names—gluttony, drunkenness, and
345 Intro| enterprise, such as makes the names of men and women famous,
346 Intro| however prolific in hard names. When Plato has sufficiently
347 Intro| speak and to think. The names dialectic and rhetoric are
348 Intro| But Plato makes use of names which have often hardly
349 Text | excess. Now excess has many names, and many members, and many
350 Text | the ancient inventors of names (compare Cratylus), who
351 Text | they add their admirers’ names at the top of the writing,
352 Text | writes, he begins with the names of his approvers?~PHAEDRUS:
353 Text | who teaches in them the names of which Licymnius made
354 Text | eikonologies and all the hard names which we have been endeavouring
Philebus
Part
355 Intro| Socrates expresses about the names of the gods, which may be
356 Text | feel, Protarchus, about the names of the gods is more than
357 Text | true.~SOCRATES: And of the names expressing cognition, ought
358 Text | not mind and wisdom the names which are to be honoured
359 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: And these names may be said to have their
360 Text | SOCRATES: And these were the names which I adduced of the rivals
361 Text | of all, and that the two names ‘good’ and ‘pleasant’ are
Protagoras
Part
362 Intro| of a whole, or different names of the same thing? Protagoras
363 Text | themselves under various names, some under that of poets,
364 Text | inventing articulate speech and names; and he also constructed
365 Text | whether all these are only the names of one and the same thing:
366 Text | justice and holiness five names of the same thing? or has
367 Text | thing? or has each of the names a separate underlying essence
368 Text | you replied that the five names were not the names of the
369 Text | five names were not the names of the same thing, but that
370 Text | give up the use of various names, such as pleasant and painful,
371 Text | let us call them by two names— first, good and evil, and
372 Text | And now substitute the names of pleasure and pain for
373 Text | introduce his distinction of names, whether he is disposed
The Republic
Book
374 1 | then, instead of these names of reproach, he is termed
375 3 | the terrible and appalling names which describe the world
376 3 | upon Apollo by his many names, reminding him of everything
377 3 | of Asclepius to find more names for diseases, such as flatulence
378 3 | very strange and newfangled names to diseases. ~Yes, I said,
379 4 | may be said to have two names, monarchy and aristocracy,
380 4 | replied. ~But I regard the two names as describing one form only;
381 5 | than for them to utter the names of family ties with the
382 5 | there is a difference in the names "discord" and "war," and
383 5 | more than by the opposite names? ~True; both these and the
384 5 | both these and the opposite names will always attach to all
385 5 | are called by particular names be said to be this rather
386 6 | land well stocked with fair names and showy titles-like prisoners
387 7 | should we dispute about names when we have realities of
388 8 | far as they have distinct names, are first, those of Crete
389 8 | and calling them by sweet names; insolence they term "breeding,"
The Second Alcibiades
Part
390 Text | You may even find other names, if you seek for them; but
The Seventh Letter
Part
391 Text | its definition, made up names and verbal forms. For that
392 Text | call things by opposite names, nothing will be less permanent (
393 Text | definition, if it is made up of names and verbal forms, the same
394 Text | being. After much effort, as names, definitions, sights, and
The Sophist
Part
395 Intro| or Good having different names, or several isolated ideas
396 Intro| been applied to the greater names, such as Plotinus, and would
397 Intro| not, if all things were names of the One, and nothing
398 Intro| reluctant to mention the names of their teachers. Nor can
399 Intro| the One Good under many names to be the true Being of
400 Intro| of which have ludicrous names. Not that dialectic is a
401 Intro| dialectic is a respecter of names or persons, or a despiser
402 Intro| of any art having so many names and kinds of knowledge.
403 Intro| being and one two different names for the same thing? But
404 Intro| But how can there be two names when there is nothing but
405 Intro| what we mean by giving many names to the same thing, e.g.
406 Intro| being well provided with names, the former I will venture
407 Text | two; or do they, as the names are three, distinguish also
408 Text | which has many kinds and names, and water-animal hunting,
409 Text | The latter should have two names,—one descriptive of the
410 Text | menial occupations which have names among servants?~THEAETETUS:
411 Text | particulars, having a variety of names which are thought ridiculous.~
412 Text | wrong? The multiplicity of names which is applied to him
413 Text | one, and do you apply two names to the same thing?~THEAETETUS:
414 Text | STRANGER: To admit of two names, and to affirm that there
415 Text | we come to predicate many names of the same thing.~THEAETETUS:
416 Text | for example, under many names—that we attribute to him
417 Text | as many, and under many names.~THEAETETUS: That is true.~
418 Text | being and other to be two names of the same class?~THEAETETUS:
419 Text | Then, now, let us speak of names, as before we were speaking
420 Text | question at issue about names?~STRANGER: The question
421 Text | at issue is whether all names may be connected with one
422 Text | will be. And he not only names, but he does something,
423 Text | is no great abundance of names. Yet, for the sake of distinctness,
The Statesman
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424 Intro| begin to appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly concerned,
425 Intro| the first men gave of the names of the gods (‘They must
426 Text | answering to each of these names? Or rather, allow me to
427 Text | not too particular about names, you will be all the richer
428 Text | for if you try to invent names for them, you will find
429 Text | by joining together three names—shepherding pure-bred animals.
430 Text | described under all the names which I just now mentioned.~
431 Text | of themselves two other names?~YOUNG SOCRATES: What are
432 Text | forms and two corresponding names, royalty and tyranny.~YOUNG
433 Text | they distinguish by the names of aristocracy and oligarchy.~
434 Text | king; and thus the five names of governments, as they
435 Text | they ought to have, special names corresponding to their several
436 Text | these is out of place, the names of either are changed into
437 Text | designate by any of the names which are the subject of
The Symposium
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438 Text | the other parts have other names.’ ‘Give an illustration,’
439 Text | called poets, but have other names; only that portion of the
Theaetetus
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440 Intro| the one good under many names,’ and, like the Cynics,
441 Intro| from the customary use of names, which the vulgar pervert
442 Intro| that the first elements are names only, and that definition
443 Intro| perceived by sense, but they are names, and cannot be defined.
444 Intro| has become crowded with names, acts, feelings, images
445 Intro| Utilitarian philosopher only names which interfere with our
446 Intro| perceived, more and more names are needed. This is the
447 Text | and many more which have names, as well as innumerable
448 Text | from the customary use of names and words, which the vulgar
449 Text | shall we say that about names we care nothing?—any one
450 Text | expressed by a combination of names, for the combination of
451 Text | for the combination of names is the essence of a definition.
452 Text | first syllables of your two names?~THEAETETUS: We have already
Timaeus
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453 Intro| is no smell. They have no names, but are distinguished as
454 Intro| various kinds of bile have names answering to their colours.
455 Intro| mechanics, of which the very names were unknown to him. He
456 Intro| why have they different names; or if they are different,
457 Intro| God and the world are mere names, like the Being of the Eleatics,
458 Text | the other by their right names, and make the possessor
459 Text | clearly distinguished and have names. First, there is wine, which
460 Text | can one rightly give to it names which imply opposition?
461 Text | man. The reason why these names are used, and the circumstances
462 Text | the whole body, and the names of the agents which produce
463 Text | the things which now have names deserve to be named at all—
464 Text | catarrh, but they have many names because the places into