In much the same way, the creator of words uses letters containing certain sounds to express the essence of a word's subject. An artist uses color to express the essence of his subject in a painting. When discussing an ὄνομα ( onoma ) and how it would relate to its subject, Socrates compares the original creation of a word to the work of an artist.
The subject of Cratylus is on the correctness of names (περὶ ὀνομάτων ὀρθότητος), in other words, it is a critique on the subject of naming (Baxter). Aristotle states that Cratylus influenced Plato by introducing to him the teachings of Heraclitus, according to MW. The individual Cratylus was the first intellectual influence on Plato ( Sedley). In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural", that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period.
Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511)Ĭratylus ( / ˈ k r æ t ɪ l ə s/ KRAT-il-əs Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, Kratylos) is the name of a dialogue by Plato.
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