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views deeply tinged Plato's earlier thought. Almost every one of Plato's dialogues is a sort of palimpsest: there is one professed subject, while lying beneath that is a faintly traced thought far more general and at the same time more practically important of which perhaps no word is overly spoken. It is so with the Ceratylus. language is its explicit subject but appearance and the nature of the underlying reality is what the writer is thinking on all the while. The first question is how can a proposition which must be true or false be composed exclusively of parts which one neither true nor false? That 385E, 386A is joined to the question whether as things appear to you, so in itself the reality of each of ths is as Protagoras said, saying that man is the measure of all values [foreign text] so that as things appear to me such for me they are and as they appear to you such for you they are or does it seem to