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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“For if what appears to each man is true to him, one man cannot in reality be wiser than another”
Cratylus, Stephanus 386c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The argument against Protagoras that grounds Socrates' claim that things, and therefore actions like naming, have natures of their own.
Citation: "For if what appears to each man is true to him, one man cannot in reality be wiser than another" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 386c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q3)
