Plato, Sophist, section 261d

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[261d]

Stranger
Then let us now investigate names, just a we spoke a while ago about ideas and letters; for in that direction the object of our present search is coming in sight.

Theaetetus
What do we need to understand about names?

Stranger
Whether they all unite with one another, or none of them, or some will and some will not.

Theaetetus
Evidently the last; some will and some will not.

Stranger
This, perhaps, is what you mean, that those which are spoken in order

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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