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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato

“for there is no name given to anything by nature; all is convention and habit of the users”

Plato (spoken by Hermogenes)

Cratylus, Stephanus 384d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Hermogenes states the conventionalist view, citing the practice of renaming slaves.

Citation: "for there is no name given to anything by nature; all is convention and habit of the users" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 384d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q2)

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