Plato, Cratylus, section 388a

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[388a]

Hermogenes
True.

Socrates
And what is that with which we have to bore?

Hermogenes
A borer.

Socrates
And that with which we weave?

Hermogenes
A shuttle.

Socrates
And that with which we must name?

Hermogenes
A name.

Socrates
Right. A name also, then, is a kind of instrument.

Hermogenes
Certainly.

Socrates
Then if I were to ask “What instrument is the shuttle?” Is it not that with which we weave?

Hermogenes
Yes.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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