Etymology in Plato’s Sophist
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https://doi.org/10.36950/OUOF9108Keywords:
Cratylus, etymology, flux, Plato, SophistAbstract
The etymological method displayed at considerable length in the Cratylus is widely assumed to be intended by Plato as an object of ridicule. In my 2003 monograph Plato’s Cratylus I resisted this assumption. In the present paper I seek to strengthen my case by arguing that in Plato’s major work on philosophical logic, the Sophist, the same method is re-employed twice, at 221 a–c and 228 b–e, for entirely serious purposes.
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2019-12-29
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Sedley, D. (2019). Etymology in Plato’s Sophist. Hyperboreus, 25(2), 290-301. https://doi.org/10.36950/OUOF9108