Cratylus
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Persons Of The Dialogue: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus.
Hermogenes: Suppose that we make Socrates a party to the argument?
Cratylus: If you please.
Hermogenes: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguing about names; he says that they are natural and not conventional; not a portion of the human voice which men agree to use; but that there is a truth or correctness in them, which is the ...