Cratylus
Cratylus is a free 88-page philosophy (academic) ebook by Plato., published Mar 2012. It is free to download in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats — no payment required. Rated 4.3/5 by 3 readers. Downloaded 590 times.
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The formal topic of the Cratylus is ‘correctness of names’, a hot topic in the late fifth century BC when the dialogue has its dramatic setting. Sophists like Prodicus offered training courses in this subject, sometimes perhaps meaning by it little more than lessons in correct diction. But that practical issue spawned the theoretical question, what criteria determine the correct choice of name for any given object? And in the Cratylus Socrates' two primary interlocutors, Hermogenes and Cratylus (the latter of whom is reported by Aristotle to have been an early philosophical influence on Plato), represent two diametrically opposed answers to that question. As a preliminary, it is important to be clear about what is meant by ‘names’. The plural noun onomata (singular onoma), trans...
Last updated: March 10, 2012
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