Plato (427-328 BC) founded in 387 BC at Athens, GREECE “The Academy” which was the first University in history. “The Academy “ ended in 83 BC.
Here I present: Plato, “Cratylus: Critique of Naming”, 5th century BC which was a historic linguistic text.
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The subject of Cratylus is on names, in other words, it is a critique on the subject of naming.
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 a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have intrinsic relation to things they signify.
Here I presented: Plato, “Cratylus: Critique of Naming”, 5th century BC which was a historic linguistic text.
Plato (427-328 BC) founded in 387 BC at Athens, GREECE “The Academy” which was the first University in history. “The Academy “ ended in 83 BC.
Cratylism reaches similar conclusions about the nature of reality and communication that Taoism and Zen Buddhism confronted: how can a mind in flux, in a flowing world, hold on to any solid “truth” and convey it to another mind.