
HoP 029 - What's in a Name? - Plato's Cratylus
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Plato's Parody of a Socratic Sophist
i etymologize the word for god by saying that it's based on the word for run. If i may indulge in a little etymology of my own. This is basically onomata pea. This word onamata pea comes from, wait for it, ancient greek. And the first part onama is the greek term i have been translating in this episode as word. Sometimes people translate onoma as name rather than word but that might be misleading,. since socrates is happy to refer to a common noun or even a verb as an onoma. At any rate, onamarapea is when a word literally sounds like what it means. For
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