Cratylus

SOCRATES: I dare say that you may be right, Hermogenes: let us see;--Your meaning is, that the name of each thing isonly that which anybody agrees to call it?HERMOGENES: That is my notion.SOCRATES: Whether the giver of the name be anindividual or a city?HERMOGENES: Yes.SOCRATES: Well, now, let me take an instance;--supposethat I call a man a horse or a horse a man, you mean to saythat a man will be rightly called a horse by me individually, and rightly called a man by the rest of the world; and a horseagain would be rightly called a man by me and a horse by theworld: --that is your meaning?HERMOGENES: He would, according to my view.SOCRATES: But how about truth, then? you wouldacknowledge that there is in words a true and a fal