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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: false:--which is all that I want to know.
CRATYLUS: I should say that he would be putting himself in motion to no
purpose; and that his words would be an unmeaning sound like the noise of
hammering at a brazen pot.
SOCRATES: But let us see, Cratylus, whether we cannot find a meeting-
point, for you would admit that the name is not the same with the thing
named?
CRATYLUS: I should.
SOCRATES: And would you further acknowledge that the name is an imitation
of the thing?
CRATYLUS: Certainly.
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