Plato, Cratylus, section 429b

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[429b]

Socrates
Then do some lawgivers produce better, and others worse works?

Cratylus
No; at that point I cease to agree.

Socrates
Then you do not think that some laws are better, and some worse?

Cratylus
No, I do not.

Socrates
And you do not, it appears, think that one name is better, and another worse?

Cratylus
No, I do not.

Socrates
Then all names are correct?

Cratylus
All that are really names.

Socrates
How about the name of our friend Hermogenes,

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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