
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.
Page Count:
110
Publication Date:
2010-12-20
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10:
1456363948
ISBN-13:
9781456363949
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