Language and Ontology in "Cratylus" [collective translation] Cover Image

Język i ontologia w "Kratylosie" [tłumaczenie zbiorowe]
Language and Ontology in "Cratylus" [collective translation]

Author(s): Charles H. Kahn
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Language; Ontology; Cratylus; Plato

Summary/Abstract: What is new in Ch. H. Kahn reinterpretation of Plato's "Cratylus" is the way he considers its main problem: the question of correctness of names. In traditional approach there are two opposite theses: 1) names are conventional; 2) names are regarded as natural. Kahn, however, maintains that Plato is in fact concerned with a quite different pair of questions. The first one is the sign relation of the language and its role in the communication. The other is the sense and the role of the study of names as a means for investigating the nature of things.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 43-58
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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