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.
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505 0 |a List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE The Argument in the Cratylus in the Form of a Geometric Demonstration -- TWO Enunciation: Knowledge of Names, like Knowledge of Beautiful Things in General, is Difficult 383a-384c -- THREE I. Construction: Eikasia, Likeness-Making: The Appearance of Reasoning 384c-393b -- FOUR II. Demonstration: Pistis, Belief: Heraclitean Dogmas, Socratic Demands 393b-408d -- FIVE III Demonstration: Dianoia, Systematic Reasoning: An Axiomatic Heraclitean Logos: A Phenomenal Philosophical Dictionary 408d-421c -- SIX IV. Demonstration: Noesis, Knowing: Knowledge as Identical with Perception 421d-436b -- SEVEN Reduction, Recapitulation: 436c-440c -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- About the Author -- Index. 
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