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- A Platonic Conception of Language
A Platonic Conception of Language
Angebote / Angebote:
This book is a type of prolegomena to Platonic
conceptions of language. This book does not address
at length all of the social and cultural issues that
deserve a relevant book of their own. There is no
deep moral message in this book. However, I want
people to know something that I feel about
appropriate criticism.
Criticism and rebuke should be expressed in a kind
fashion. If you
do so, please do not leave a "trace". If you''re
going to send the thing down, then do it in its
appropriate season, please.
At the time I wrote this book as a doctoral thesis,
I was not completely aware of all the sources and
influences that led me to write what I did. On
looking through the dialogues themselves and other
sources, I noticed that certain ideas that I thought
might be my own had already been laid down by Plato
or others. This is particularly true in the case
of ''The Cratylus'', where possibly there might be a
sort of abstract Sapir-Whorf idea contained
therein.
Many of the issues presented in the book are left
slightly vague or open. I hope we can discuss them
in the future:
This is not a dialogue, but I hope that some day it
could be so.
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