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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“And the work of the legislator is to give names, and the dialectician must be his director if the names are to be rightly given”
Cratylus, Stephanus 390d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
As the pilot directs the carpenter who makes a rudder, the one who knows how to ask and answer should supervise the maker of names.
Citation: "And the work of the legislator is to give names, and the dialectician must be his director if the names are to be rightly given" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 390d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q5)
