Plato, Cratylus, section 430c

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[430c]

Cratylus
They can.

Socrates
First, then, consider this question: Can we assign the likeness of the man to the man and that of the woman to the woman, and so forth?

Cratylus
Certainly.

Socrates
And can we conversely attribute that of the man to the woman, and the woman's to the man?

Cratylus
That is also possible.

Socrates
And are these assignments both correct, or only the former?

Cratylus
The former.

Socrates
The assignment, in short, which attributes to each that which belongs to it and is like it.

Cratylus
That is my view.

Socrates
To put an end to contentious argument between you and me,

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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