The Legacy of Hermes: Deception and Dialectic in Plato’s Cratylus

Against the background of a conventionalist theory, and staged as a defense of a naturalistic notion of names and naming, the critique of language developed in Plato’s Cratylus does not only propose that human language, in contrast to the language of the gods, is bound to the realm of myth and lie....

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Main Author: Olof Pettersson
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2016-05-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia Antiga
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Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/article/view/103295