This book explains how the Cratylus, Plato's apparently meandering and comical dialogue on the correctness of names, makes serious philosophical progress by its notorious etymological digressions. While still a wild ride through a Heraclitean flood of etymologies which threatens to swamp language al
Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics. (Value Inquiry Book)
โ Scribed by Matti Hayry, Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 325
- Category
- Library
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