Plato, Cratylus, section 433d

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[433d] the representation of a thing?

Cratylus
Yes.

Socrates
And do you not think it is true that some names are composed of earlier ones and others are primary?

Cratylus
Yes.

Socrates
But if the primary names are to be representations of any things, can you suggest any better way of making them representations than by making them as much as possible like the things which they are to represent?

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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