Plato's Cratylus: argument, form, and structure
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Main Author: Riley, Michael W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2005
Series:Value inquiry book series v. 168
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index
This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp language altogether, the Cratylus emerges as an astonishingly organized evaluation of the power of words
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 151 pages)
ISBN:1423791894
9042018755
9781423791898
9789042018754

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