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portada Cratylus
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
126
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x0.8 cm
Weight
0.20 kg.
ISBN13
9781491011850
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Cratylus

Benjamin Jowett (Translated by) · Createspace · Paperback

Cratylus - Jowett, Benjamin ; Plato

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Synopsis "Cratylus"

Cratylus By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural," that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify. When discussing how a word would relate to its subject, Socrates compares the original creation of a word to the work of an artist. An artist uses color to express the essence of his subject in a painting. In much the same way, the creator of words uses letters containing certain sounds to express the essence of a word's subject. There is a letter that is best for soft things, one for liquid things, and so on. He comments, "the best possible way to speak consists in using names all (or most) of which are like the things they name (that is, are appropriate to them), while the worst is to use the opposite kind of names." One countering position, held by Hermogenes, is that names have come about due to custom and convention. They do not express the essence of their subject, so they can be swapped with something unrelated by the individuals or communities who use them.

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