  Although Plato’s long-standing interest in the falsity issue is well known, the main aim here is to enforce Cratylus’ agreement on a point already established in the etymological section: that although names do indeed function as names by being miniaturized descriptions of their objects, they can succeed in being names despite a considerable variation in their degree of descriptive accuracy. Names are ‘so far as possible’ likenesses of their objects, but the minimum condition for their being those objects’ names is merely that they convey their ‘outline’ (432e–433e). The portrait analogy is here too not far from the surface.