NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE

For Plato, language was the way to cognize the universe. The philosophy of language, which was primarily initiated by Plato in the Cratylus, still has not received answers to the questions settled by this great Greek thinker. In fact, it just offered various solutions formed in different conceptions...

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Main Author: Pavlo Sodomora
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Language:Polish
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2020-09-01
Series:Filozofia i Nauka
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spelling doaj-3c096f09ec19439da287d47fe636afbb2020-11-25T03:54:58ZpolPolish Academy of SciencesFilozofia i Nauka2300-47112545-19362020-09-0182475510.37240/FiN.2020.8.2.3NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGEPavlo Sodomora0Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Lviv; Danylo Halytsky National Medical University, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Department of Philosophy. For Plato, language was the way to cognize the universe. The philosophy of language, which was primarily initiated by Plato in the Cratylus, still has not received answers to the questions settled by this great Greek thinker. In fact, it just offered various solutions formed in different conceptions and approaches in the ancient, scholastic, modern and postmodern periods. The questions raised by Plato in his dialogue have been continued in various nativistic theories of language, especially in works of Noam Chomsky. Language—as it is seen by Plato, i.e., as uniting our inner world with the outer world, is a significant feature of humankind, is still underinvestigated.http://filozofiainauka.ifispan.waw.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sodomora_47.pdflanguageconventionalismnaturalisminterpretationetymologysemiotics
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NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
Filozofia i Nauka
language
conventionalism
naturalism
interpretation
etymology
semiotics
author_facet Pavlo Sodomora
author_sort Pavlo Sodomora
title NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
title_short NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
title_full NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
title_fullStr NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
title_full_unstemmed NATURALISM AND CONVENTIONALISM IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
title_sort naturalism and conventionalism in plato’s dialogues and nativistic theories of language
publisher Polish Academy of Sciences
series Filozofia i Nauka
issn 2300-4711
2545-1936
publishDate 2020-09-01
description For Plato, language was the way to cognize the universe. The philosophy of language, which was primarily initiated by Plato in the Cratylus, still has not received answers to the questions settled by this great Greek thinker. In fact, it just offered various solutions formed in different conceptions and approaches in the ancient, scholastic, modern and postmodern periods. The questions raised by Plato in his dialogue have been continued in various nativistic theories of language, especially in works of Noam Chomsky. Language—as it is seen by Plato, i.e., as uniting our inner world with the outer world, is a significant feature of humankind, is still underinvestigated.
topic language
conventionalism
naturalism
interpretation
etymology
semiotics
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