I aim to show that in the Cratylus Plato develops a model for names and meaning that offers alternative solutions to some of the problems in linguistic naturalism and conventionalism. I will focus chiefly on the reconstruction of the argument at 384a8-391a4 and on the later refutation of the crude naturalism at 428dff. The aim is to explain Plato’s two main theses on names according to which (a) names are instruments made by convention in order to perform some specific action, and (b) they have a semantic-normative external source lying in the natural essences of things. In addition, I aim to show that Plato’s Cratylus initiates the descriptive theory of meaning which Aristotle continues in De Interpretatione.Aspiro a mostrar que Platón des...
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The article aims to understand the role of names in Plato’s Cratylus based upon the ontological theo...
In this monograph, I advance my interpretation of the view that Plato held in the Cratylus about the...
Aspiro a mostrar que Platón desarrolla en el Crátilo un modelo para los nombres y el significado que...
Aspiro a mostrar que Platón desarrolla en el Crátilo un modelo para los nombres y el significado que...
O Crátilo relata o confronto de duas teorias sobre a “correção dos nomes”. Embora ambas defendam hav...
This article presents a critical discussion of the mimetic mode of naming in Plato’s dialogue Cratyl...
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo oferecer uma interpretação sobre o problema da chamada correçã...
This thesis is about Plato‘s dialogue Cratylus, which is one of the earliest texts in the history of...
The Cratylus opens with the question of what is the correctness of names. Hermcgenesand Cratylus off...
The Cratylus opens with the question of what is the correctness of names. Hermcgenesand Cratylus off...
In the Cratylus, Plato presents two fundamental theses about language: the «naturalist» position def...
The article aims to understand the role of names in Plato’s Cratylus based upon the ontological theo...
I consider Plato’s argument, in the dialogue Cratylus, against both of two opposed views of the “cor...
This work intends to reflect, from Cratylus dialogue by Plato, on the precision of names, which is t...
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press. It has been suggested that ...
The article aims to understand the role of names in Plato’s Cratylus based upon the ontological theo...
In this monograph, I advance my interpretation of the view that Plato held in the Cratylus about the...
Aspiro a mostrar que Platón desarrolla en el Crátilo un modelo para los nombres y el significado que...
Aspiro a mostrar que Platón desarrolla en el Crátilo un modelo para los nombres y el significado que...
O Crátilo relata o confronto de duas teorias sobre a “correção dos nomes”. Embora ambas defendam hav...
This article presents a critical discussion of the mimetic mode of naming in Plato’s dialogue Cratyl...
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo oferecer uma interpretação sobre o problema da chamada correçã...
This thesis is about Plato‘s dialogue Cratylus, which is one of the earliest texts in the history of...
The Cratylus opens with the question of what is the correctness of names. Hermcgenesand Cratylus off...
The Cratylus opens with the question of what is the correctness of names. Hermcgenesand Cratylus off...
In the Cratylus, Plato presents two fundamental theses about language: the «naturalist» position def...
The article aims to understand the role of names in Plato’s Cratylus based upon the ontological theo...
I consider Plato’s argument, in the dialogue Cratylus, against both of two opposed views of the “cor...
This work intends to reflect, from Cratylus dialogue by Plato, on the precision of names, which is t...
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press. It has been suggested that ...
The article aims to understand the role of names in Plato’s Cratylus based upon the ontological theo...
In this monograph, I advance my interpretation of the view that Plato held in the Cratylus about the...