What remains of Socrates’ naturalist theory once naturalism is accepted
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004473027_005" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004473027_005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What remains of Socrates’ naturalist theory once naturalism is accepted
Original language description
What is the main philosophical gain for a reader of the Cratylus? Led by this question, the author claims that the non-conventialist theory of names developed in the dialogue’s first part is not entirely nullified by the acceptance of conventionalism in the dialogue’s second part. Against some older and some more recent readings, he argues that a core of the non-conventialist theory remains valid in Plato’s view and, together with Plato’s professed conventionalism, represents a complex position on the relation between names and nominata – this is the main outcome of the dialogue (and is also consonant with much of what Plato says in other dialogues). For this reason the paper points out several important distinctions that are made in the first part of the dialogue, notably the introduction of forms of names as a third kind of thing distinct from both names and nominata. It is argued that the forms of names manifest a rational structure behind names, which, in its turn, is the basis for Plato’s semantics and comes forth behind the etymologies and the principle of resemblance as they are successively introduced.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-03037S" target="_blank" >GA14-03037S: Incorporeals in Stoicism</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Plato’s Cratylus. Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense
ISBN
978-90-04-47301-0
ISSN
2452-2945
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
65-89
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
Event location
Prague
Event date
Nov 9, 2017
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
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