Dialogue with what? The Socratic way on names in the Cratylus and the possibility of dialectics as a research method
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Language, Dialectics, Epistemology, CratylusAbstract
In this essay, based on an interpretation of the Cratylus, I defend that Plato conceives the mediation of ordinary language as necessary for the dialectical investigation of reality. In the discussion about the rightness of names, Socrates maintains a compatibilist position between Conventionalism and Naturalism that allows him to judge the imperfection in the establishment of names. Such reconstruction allows us to conceive both the criticism of etymology as a research method, and the dialectics as an overcoming method. The dialectician, to be successful, must consider the necessary imperfection of our names.
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