Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
September 11, 202346m 8s
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Show Notes
Continuing on Plato's mid-period dialogue about language. Is attaching a word to a thing, i.e. naming it, like other activities such as carpentry or sewing that can go wrong? Can we put the "form" of a thing into letters and syllabus of its name? We go through many examples where Socrates claims to have done just that.
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