Naturalism and Conventionalism in Plato’s Dialogues and Nativistic Theories of Language

• Authors: Sodomora Pavlo
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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language; conventionalism; naturalism; interpretation; etymology; semiotics

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
• Journal: Filozofia i Nauka
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 8/2
• Pages: 47-55

Contributors

author

Sodomora Pavlo

• Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Lviv; Danylo Halytsky National Medical University, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Department of Philosophy.