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A Study of Plato's Cratylus
… looked for clues about its nature is Plato's Cratylus, which considers whether names are naturally or conventionally correct. The dialogue is a source of annoyance to many commentators because it does not take a clear position on the central question. At times, it argues that language is …
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An Examination of Plato's 'Cratylus'
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The Sophist In The Cave: Education Through Names In Plato's Republic
<p>The Cratylus is often considered an isolated dialogue in Plato’s corpus, and the major theses of the Cratylus are often seen as disposable and problematic elements in Platonic thought. When one carefully compares this dialogue, however, to Plato’s comments elsewhere about rhetoric and dialectic, …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
… In my final chapter, I focus on a passage in the Cratylus (393b-394e), where Plato says that humans beget humans, horses beget horses, and so on. Ademollo, in his commentary on the Cratylus, says that these are instances of the like-causes-like principle (principle 4). Plato also claims that a …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which …