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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Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Revista de Filosofia Antiga |
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| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/article/view/103295 |