Cratylus' Silence About Linguistic Correctness
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil20254516" target="_blank" >10.5840/ancientphil20254516</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cratylus' Silence About Linguistic Correctness
Original language description
This article tackles the longstanding interpretative puzzle of what the silence of Cratylus in Cratylus actually signifies. The author argues that Cratylus’ silence is meaningful — not a failure to respond, but a deliberate rhetorical move that conveys his view on the correctness of names. Through a careful analysis, the article suggests that Cratylus remains silent in imitation of a literary trope used to show rather than tell the significance of naming. The philosophical implication is that, for Cratylus, linguistic correctness is not primarily a matter of what is said (i.e., explicit naming), but of what is shown — the appropriateness of the name as understanding the relation between words and reality. In this way, the article reframes the traditional debate (naturalism vs. conventionalism) about correctness of names by highlighting silence itself as a semiotic act: truth and correctness lie not in statements but in the embodied, implicit relation between name and thing.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ancient Philosophy
ISSN
07402007
e-ISSN
21544689
Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
107 - 128
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217133857