Cratylus by Plato
A philosophical dialogue investigates whether words have a natural, intrinsic link to the things they denote or are products of social convention, testing extreme naturalist and conventionalist claims through close etymological analysis and critical questioning; it highlights problems raised by change, imitation, and the limits of etymology, and ultimately suggests that naming is complex—shaped by linguistic practice, human reason and craft rather than by a simple, fixed correspondence between word and world.
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- On Names
- On the Correctness of Names
- Κρατύλος
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