Cratylus

Plato. (1892). Cratylus.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1892

Link

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cratylus/8r1bAAAAQAAJ not authoritative

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions
  • Even onomatopoeic forms (cock-crow: English cock-a-doodle-doo, French cocorico, Japanese kokekokkō) diverge sharply across languages, suggesting even the most motivated forms are subject to language-specific conventionalization. Philosophy of language: Plato's Cratylus

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