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Cratylus
Representing by likeness the thing represented is absolutely and entirely superior to representation by chance signs.Socrates
You are right. Then if the name is like the thing, the letters of which the primary names are to be formed must be by their very nature like the things, must they not? Let me explain. Could a painting, to revert to our previous comparison, ever be made like any real thing, if there were no pigments out of which the painting is composed,
Representing by likeness the thing represented is absolutely and entirely superior to representation by chance signs.Socrates
You are right. Then if the name is like the thing, the letters of which the primary names are to be formed must be by their very nature like the things, must they not? Let me explain. Could a painting, to revert to our previous comparison, ever be made like any real thing, if there were no pigments out of which the painting is composed,