Quotes from book
Cratylus
Plato
Original title
Κρατύλος
(Greek)
Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural", that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify.
435b
Cratylus
Variant: I shall assume that your silence gives consent
