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Sep 2023
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Ep. 324: Plato's "Cratylus" on Language ...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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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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