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Plato's Cratylus : argument, form, and structure /

This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riley, Michael W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; v. 168.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE: The Argument in the Cratylus in the Form of a Geometric Demonstration; TWO: Enunciation: Knowledge of Names, like Knowledge of Beautiful Things in General, is Difficult 383a-384c; THREE: I. Construction: Eikasia, Likeness-Making: The Appearance of Reasoning 384c-393b; FOUR: II. Demonstration: Pistis, Belief: Heraclitean Dogmas, Socratic Demands 393b-408d; FIVE: III. Demonstration: Dianoia, Systematic Reasoning: An Axiomatic Heraclitean Logos: A Phenomenal Philosophical Dictionary 408d-421c
  • SIX: IV. Demonstration: Noesis, Knowing: Knowledge as Identical with Perception 421d-436bSEVEN: Reduction, Recapitulation: 436c-440c; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix; About the Author; Index