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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.