Plato's Cratylus : Argument, Form, and Structure /

Plato's Cratylus : Argument, Form, and Structure /

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 langu...

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Main Author: Riley, Michael W. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 168.

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Language and languages > Philosophy.

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Call Number: B367

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Summary: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 resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789401202381
9789042018754