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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“But we may admit so much, that the knowledge of things is not to be derived from names. No; they must be studied and investigated in themselves”
Cratylus, Stephanus 439b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The main conclusion of the dialogue: names are images, and it is nobler to learn from the truth than from its image.
Citation: "But we may admit so much, that the knowledge of things is not to be derived from names. No; they must be studied and investigated in themselves" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 439b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q10)
