Plato's dialogue Cratylus. He was a radical proponent of Heraclitean philosophy and influenced the young Plato. Little is known of Cratylus beyond his status...

things they signify. The individual Cratylus was the first intellectual influence on Plato. Aristotle states that Cratylus influenced Plato by introducing...

the incisive criticism he makes of his own theory in the Parmenides. In Cratylus, Plato writes: But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time...

reconstructed only through the details revealed by Plato in the Euthyphro and Cratylus, as no further contemporaneous sources exist. Euthyphro's status as a "mantic"...

with Pothos, the personification of passionate longing. In his dialogue Cratylus, Plato points out the difference between the two concepts explaining that...

kind. Later writers developed the distinction between the two. Plato in Cratylus speculates that the word daimōn (δαίμων, "deity") is synonymous to daēmōn...

– via Perseus Digital Library Plato, Cratylus, 402b Plato, Cratylus, 402b Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Cratylus, 396B7. Marenbon, John (ed.). Poetry...

and meaning may significantly affect the form of spoken languages. In Cratylus, Plato has Socrates commenting on the origins and correctness of various...

Heracliteans whose names are now lost to us". In his dialogue Cratylus, Plato presented Cratylus as a Heraclitean and as a linguistic naturalist who believed...

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Diogenes Laertius, Plato received these ideas through Heraclitus' disciple Cratylus. Parmenides adopted an altogether contrary vision, arguing for the idea...

῾Ρέᾱ = Γη, από το ἔρα με μετάθεση των φθόγγων. Graves, p. 49. Plato. Cratylus, 402b–c. Chrysippus, Stoic, 2.318 Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert...

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words and what words designate. It reflects the teachings of the Athenian Cratylus (Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, also transliterated as Kratylos), fl. mid to...

eventually dying peacefully, with spirits living on as "guardians". Plato in Cratylus (397 e) recounts the golden race of humans who came first. He clarifies...

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century BC in India and c. the 3rd century BC in Greece. In the dialogue Cratylus, Plato considered the question of whether the names of things were determined...

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that language and thought are intertwined is ancient. In his dialogue Cratylus, Plato explores the idea that conceptions of reality, such as Heraclitean...

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orientations, have argued that in the Cratylus Plato gave his assent now to the thesis of Hermogenes, now to the thesis of Cratylus. Gérard Genette, in the work...

Classical Greek period to address etymology was the Socratic dialogue Cratylus (c. 360 BCE) by Plato. During much of the dialogue, Socrates makes guesses...

by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed. Plato in the Cratylus (395e) interprets Τάνταλος (Tántalos) as ταλάντατος (talántatos) [acc....

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and 𐀇𐀺, di-wo, written in the Linear B syllabic script. Plato, in his Cratylus, gives a folk etymology of Zeus meaning "cause of life always to all things"...

parents of Cronus and Rhea and the other Titans, as well as Phorcys. In his Cratylus, Plato quotes Orpheus as saying that Oceanus and Tethys were "the first...

encounters the form (Φερρϖφάττα). Plato calls her Pherepapha (Φερέπαφα) in his Cratylus, "because she is wise and touches that which is in motion". There are also...

Apollo's name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi), "to destroy". Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ἀπόλυσις (apolysis), "redemption", with ἀπόλουσις...