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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“Then a name is an instrument of teaching and of distinguishing natures, as the shuttle is of distinguishing the threads of the web”
Cratylus, Stephanus 388b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The central analogy of the first half: names are tools with a function, and can be well or badly made.
Citation: "Then a name is an instrument of teaching and of distinguishing natures, as the shuttle is of distinguishing the threads of the web" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 388b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q4)
