Convention or Nature? : The Correctness of Names in Plato's Cratylus
This thesis is about Plato‘s dialogue Cratylus, which is one of the earliest texts in the history ofphilosophy of language and has generated much interpretive controversy. In the dialogue, Platoexamines two theories on the correctness of names; conventionalism and naturalism. However,there is no cle...
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier
2018
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149387 |