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Product Identifiers
Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1490536337
ISBN-13
9781490536330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167525610
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cratylus
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
184
Synopsis
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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