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understanding the world. In a sense, indeed, the power of
words or other visual symbols became greater than
before . . . now verbal and mathematical thought became
the only truth , and the whole sensory world came to be
regarded as illusory, except insofar as thoughts were
heard or seen.
In his dialogue of the Cratylus , named for his teacher of
language and grammar, Plato has Socrates say (438):
But if these things are only to be known through names,
how can we suppose that the givers of names had
knowledge, or were legislators before there were names at
all, and therefore before they could have known them?
Cratylus : I believe, Socrates, the true account of the
matter to be, that a power more than human gave things