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430 Cratylus. I should say that the man in such a case was merely making a noise, going through purposeless motions, as if he were beating a bronze pot.

430 Socrates. Let us see, Cratylus, if we cannot come to terms somehow. You would agree, would you not, that the name is one thing and the thing of which it is the name is another?

430 Cratylus. Yes, I should.

430 Socrates. And you agree that the name is an imitation of the thing named?

430 Cratylus. Most assuredly.

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

430 Cratylus. Yes.

430 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?

430 Cratylus. They can.

430 Socrates. First, then, consider this question: Can we assign the likeness of the man to the man and that of the woman to the woman, and so forth?

430 Cratylus. Certainly.

430 Socrates. And can we conversely attribute that of the man to the woman, and the woman’s to the man?

430 Cratylus. That is also possible.

430 Socrates. And are these assignments both correct, or only the former?

430 Cratylus. The former.

430 Socrates. The assignment, in short, which attributes to each that which belongs to it and is like it.

430 Cratylus. That is my view.

430 Socrates. To put an end to contentious argument between you and me, since we are friends, let me state my position. I call that kind of assignment in the case of both imitations paintings and names—correct, and in the case of names not only correct, but true; and the other kind, which gives and applies the unlike imitation, I call incorrect and, in the case of names, false.

430 Cratylus. But it may be, Socrates, that this incorrect assignment is possible in the case of paintings, and not in the case of names, which must be always correctly assigned.

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