1) Dialogue of Plato
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[dialogue] Cratylus (s; Κρατύλος, Kratylos) 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...
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(from the article `Plato`) The question of whether words have meaning by nature or by convention is considered in the Cratylus—whether there is some special appropriateness of ... ...of language, and in India the god Indra is said to have invented articulate speech. In the much more sophisticated debate on the nature and origin ......
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(from the article `Skepticism`) ...world, of change and plurality, and denied that reality could be described in the categories of ordinary experience. On the other hand, the ...
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