Making sense of the Cratylus

5 Making sense of the Cratylus RUDOLPH H. WEINGARTNER Few, if any, of Plato's dialogues are correctly described as setting jt forth Plato's theory of some subject or other in the way in which the Essay Concerning Hmnan Understanding may be said to set forth Locke's theory of knowledge. But neither are the Platonic dialogues merely slices of the philosophic life, showing how a series of more or less related problems are explored until fatigue, ill temper, pressing business, or a puzzlement still more profound than that with which the dialogue began brings it to its inconclusive end. Not many