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Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part One)

Sep 04, 202345 min
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On Plato's mid-period dialogue from around 388 BCE. How do words relate to the things they represent? Socrates first argues that words represent things, and so doing etymology is a way of learning philosophical truths, then seemingly reverses himself.

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