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Logic IV. 47
nexx to which below he add softness; G viscosity and stickiness; N inwardness; A size; E length; O round. Certylus thinks that one name is as good as another but leaves a aperture to crawl through by denying that unsuitable names are the names of the things called by them. Ceratylus as a good Heraclitan thinks that notion of falsity quite absurd. Nothing can be expressed which doesn't be. Socrates illustrates by comparing [poeticals?] to pictures. On p.433A there is a refernce to a [?] regulation of Aegina which being nonspecifically appropriate is an indication that the dialogue was written shortly after or possibly during Plato's enslavement in their town. Socrates thinks that the invent of words was of the opinion of Heraclitus but that he was mistaken. There is an absolute beauty and good irrespective of names. That which perpetually shapes is not real; nor can it be known. Still on e must not hastily decide. No [stylometric?] conclusion is more decided than these two that the 10th Book of the Republic was written after the first

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