Plato, Cratylus, section 416c

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[416c]

Hermogenes
How is that?

Socrates
I think this word denotes intellect.

Hermogenes
What do you mean?

Socrates
Why, what do you think is the cause why anything is called by a name? Is it not the power which gave the name?

Hermogenes
Why, certainly.

Socrates
And is not that power the intellect either of gods or of men or both?

Hermogenes
Yes.

Socrates
Are not that which called things by name and that which calls them by name (τὸ καλοῦν) the same thing, namely intellect?

Hermogenes
Yes, clearly.

Socrates
And are not all works which are done by mind and intelligence worthy of praise, and those that are not done by them worthy of blame?

Hermogenes
Certainly.

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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