📚 Library / Plato
Cratylus
Plato · c. 380 BCE · translated by Harold North Fowler
Do names belong to things by nature or by convention? Philosophy’s first sustained argument about language.
24,124 words · 15 pages · about 1 h 50 min of reading
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