For an aporetic reading of Plato's Cratylus
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47661/afcl.v8i15.2933Keywords:
Plato, Cratylus, Correctness of names, non-predicative and predicative readings of sentencesAbstract
In the Cratylus two theories on the correctness of names are confronted. Though both of them agree on there being a “correctness of names”, while ‘naturalism' supports a “natural correctness for all names”, for ‘conventionalism' correctness consists in that “convention and agreement” through which “someone imposes a name on something”. Against both theories Socrates argues that giving a name should combine the naturalist and conventionalist approaches, describing “correctness” as the relation through which a ‘name' is naturally given to something, as it is natural for it to be. Along with the Parmenides and the Theaetetus my interpretation of the dialogue sees it as an aporetic introduction to the epistemology of the Sophist.References
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