Day 30: Cratylus 424a-429d (pp. 141-145)

Not much to say today. I just thought I would post to keep track of where we are.

428d: Self-deception is the worst thing of all, apparently.

429b: It seems like Cratylus is saying that a name either belongs to something totally or not at all. So it can't be the case that an object with the name X partially picks out the object's nature and partially does not. This doesn't seem right if names are simply images or imitations of the nature of an object. Images can be poorly rendered. No name will ever precisely match the nature of an object, or else it would simply be that object's nature.