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Cratylus
Yes.Socrates
Then if you recognize my meaning when I speak, that is an indication given to you by me.Cratylus
Yes.Socrates
The indication comes from something which is unlike my meaning when I speak, if in your example σκληρότης the lambda is unlike hardness; and if this is true, did you not make a convention with yourself, since both like and unlike letters, by the influence of custom and convention, produce indication? And even if custom is entirely distinct from convention,
Yes.Socrates
Then if you recognize my meaning when I speak, that is an indication given to you by me.Cratylus
Yes.Socrates
The indication comes from something which is unlike my meaning when I speak, if in your example σκληρότης the lambda is unlike hardness; and if this is true, did you not make a convention with yourself, since both like and unlike letters, by the influence of custom and convention, produce indication? And even if custom is entirely distinct from convention,
