Plato, Cratylus, section 430b

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[430b] of the thing named?

Cratylus
Most assuredly.

Socrates
And you agree that paintings also are imitations, though in a different way, of things?

Cratylus
Yes.

Socrates
Well then—for perhaps I do not understand, and you may be right—can both of these imitations, the paintings and the names, be assigned and applied to the things which they imitate, or not?

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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