Names Reference And Correctness In Plato S Cratylus
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Names Reference And Correctness In Plato S Cratylus
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Author : Michael D. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Names Reference And Correctness In Plato S Cratylus written by Michael D. Palmer and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language and languages categories.
The Cratylus unfolds as a confrontation between competing theses on the question of the correctness of names. Since Plato levels criticism against both theses, we are led to wonder whether Plato himself takes a position on the main issue. Dr. Palmer argues that we can discern in the Cratylus a positive statement of Plato's own views. Plato, unlike many contemporary theorists who follow Frege, does not presuppose that intensional entities such as concepts or meanings mediate the relation between a name and its nominatum. Plato believes that reality divides into discrete, natural units and that names are established, in part, to mark these non-conventional units. Plato holds (or at least assumes) that a name is correct if it successfully (and directly) picks out a real unit or entity, and if it aptly describes its nominatum.
Names And Nature In Plato S Cratylus
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Author : Rachel Barney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2001-08-09
Names And Nature In Plato S Cratylus written by Rachel Barney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-09 with Philosophy categories.
This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus. Throughout, the book combines analysis of Plato's arguments with attentiveness to his philosophical method.
The Cratylus Of Plato
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Author : Francesco Ademollo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-03
The Cratylus Of Plato written by Francesco Ademollo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with Philosophy categories.
The Cratylus, one of Plato's most difficult and intriguing dialogues, explores the relations between a name and the thing it names. The questions that arise lead the characters to face a number of major issues: truth and falsehood, relativism, etymology, the possibility of a perfect language, the relation between the investigation of names and that of reality, the Heraclitean flux theory and the Theory of Forms. This full-scale commentary on the Cratylus offers a definitive interpretation of the dialogue. It contains translations of the passages discussed and a line-by-line analysis which deals with textual matters and unravels Plato's dense and subtle arguments, reaching a novel interpretation of some of the dialogue's main themes as well as of many individual passages. The book is intended primarily for graduate students and scholars, in both philosophy and classics, but presupposes no previous acquaintance with the subject and is accessible to undergraduates.
The Cratylus
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Author : Timothy M.S. Baxter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-21
The Cratylus written by Timothy M.S. Baxter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Philosophy categories.
The Cratylus has puzzled many readers with its lengthy discussion of the 'true meanings' of more than a hundred Greek names. This book aims to give a coherent interpretation of the whole dialogue, paying particular attention to these etymologies. The book discusses the rival theories of naming offered by Cratylus, Hermogenes, and Socrates, arguing that Socrates presents a prescriptive theory, laying down what names should be, rather than describing what they are. This distinction between prescriptive and descriptive theories is elaborated and used to illuminate the etymologies themselves. After discussing possible sources for the etymologies, the author argues that the etymological section amounts to a Platonic critique of the muddled attitude of Greek poets and thinkers towards names.
Cratylus
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Author : Plato
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Cratylus written by Plato and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
The Cratylus, Plato's sole dialogue devoted to the relation between language and reality, is acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces. But owing to its often enigmatic content no more than a handful of passages from it have played a part in the global evaluation of Plato's philosophy. This new English translation by C D C Reeve is the first since 1926, and incomparably the most helpful and accessible now available. It opens up the Cratylus to all philosophically interested readers, as well as to cultural historians and to those whose primary concern is the history of linguistics. The full and lucid introduction does much to illuminate the internal dynamic of this important text and to explain its place within Plato's oeuvre.
Plato S Cratylus
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Plato S Cratylus written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Philosophy categories.
The first collective monograph on one of Plato’s most intriguing dialogues with interest for readers of ancient philosophy as well as those who study modern theories of language.
Cratylus
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Author : Plato
language : en
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Cratylus written by Plato and has been published by Aeterna Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Religion categories.
THE Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour, and perfection of style and metaphysical originality, this dialogue may be ranked with the best of the Platonic writings, there has been an uncertainty about the motive of the piece, which interpreters have hitherto not succeeded in dispelling. We need not suppose that Plato used words in order to conceal his thoughts, or that he would have been unintelligible to an educated contemporary. In the Phaedrus and Euthydemus we also find a difficulty in determining the precise aim of the author. Plato wrote satires in the form of dialogues, and his meaning, like that of other satirical writers, has often slept in the ear of posterity. Aeterna Press
Plato S Cratylus
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Author : S. Montgomery Ewegen
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Plato S Cratylus written by S. Montgomery Ewegen and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's deeper philosophical intentions. Ewegen shows how Plato's view of language is bound to comedy through words and how, for Plato, philosophy has much in common with playfulness and the ridiculous. By tying words, language, and our often uneasy relationship with them to comedy, Ewegen frames a new reading of this notable Platonic dialogue.
Theophrastus Of Eresus Life Writings Various Reports Logic Physics Metaphysics Theology Mathematics
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1998
Theophrastus Of Eresus Life Writings Various Reports Logic Physics Metaphysics Theology Mathematics written by Theophrastus and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas . Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an up-to-date collection of the fragments and testimonia relating to Theophrastus (c. 370-288/5 B.C), Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Lyceum. In the present volume, the focus is on natural philosophy, apart from the study of living things. Topics covered include the principles of scientific enquiry, place, time, motion, the heavens, the sublunary world, meteorology and the study of materials.
Cratylus
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Author : Platon
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Cratylus written by Platon and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with categories.
SOCRATES: I dare say that you may be right, Hermogenes: let us see;--Your meaning is, that the name of each thing isonly that which anybody agrees to call it?HERMOGENES: That is my notion.SOCRATES: Whether the giver of the name be anindividual or a city?HERMOGENES: Yes.SOCRATES: Well, now, let me take an instance;--supposethat I call a man a horse or a horse a man, you mean to saythat a man will be rightly called a horse by me individually, and rightly called a man by the rest of the world; and a horseagain would be rightly called a man by me and a horse by theworld: --that is your meaning?HERMOGENES: He would, according to my view.SOCRATES: But how about truth, then? you wouldacknowledge that there is in words a true and a fal