Socrates's Argument for the Impossibility of Falsehood

Socrates takes a sort of middle view between hermogenes and cratylus. Words have their meanings by both nature and convention, he says. So it can't be the case that only the true natural words function as words - there must also be a role for convention. Notice how socrates here uses the idea that words are likenesses of things, which fits perfectly into cratylUS own theory that words are by nature.