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“no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Cratylus, Stephanus 440c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Socrates' warning to Cratylus near the end, against trusting the name-givers' assumption that everything flows.

Citation: "no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 440c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q11)

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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato