Chapter V. Naming And Being

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Chapter Contents: Socrates on the pharmacy of language 94; Parmenides and Heraclitus on names and reality 95; Plato's reaction in the Tirnaeus and the Cratylus 96; Aristotle and language as a convention 98; on names and reality 100; Stoic, Epicurean and Sceptical views on the relation between names and nature 101; Philo on the identity of names and beings 103; names and reality in the Gnostic Gospel of Truth 107

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original Mortley, Raoul (1986) "Chapter VIII. Conclusion".
unknown Mortley, Raoul (1986) "Chapter VI. The Silence Beyond Names".
unknown Mortley, Raoul (1986) "Chapter VII. Thinking Negatively : The Foundations Of The Via Negativa".

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