Plato, Cratylus, section 428e

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[428e] Then let us now see what we have said. Correctness of a name, we say, is the quality of showing the nature of the thing named. Shall we call that a satisfactory statement?

Cratylus
I am perfectly satisfied with it, Socrates.

Socrates
Names, then, are given with a view to instruction?

Cratylus
Certainly.

Socrates
Shall we, then; say that this instruction is an art and has its artisans?

Cratylus
Certainly.

Socrates
Who are they?

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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