PREMIUM-Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language (Part Three)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
Mark and Wes do a Closeread on the latter part of the dialogue, where Socrates argues to Cratylus that even if names (words) were devised to somehow depict the things they stand for, that wouldn't guarantee that they ACCURATELY describe the world. You can't look at the definitions of words to learn about the world; you have to actually investigate the world directly.
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