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Authors

Vinyukova Anna Karenovna
Postgraduate Student, Faculty of Human Philosophy, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia; Vocational Lyceum no. 110 (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Abstract

The paper analyses two ancient interpretations of the word in Plato’s dialogue Cratylus and in the philosophy of the early Stoics. Platonic name, originating in the object, and Stoic lekton, ignoring the “body”, present two types of attitude towards Being, which can be described as “correctness” and “indifference”. “Correctness” in this context means semantic consistency of the word with the essence of the thing. The word, as an image of the object, is “taken hostage” by its original. In contrast to Plato’s name, bound to the thing, Stoics’ lekton, as non-Being, related to emptiness, is not affected by the thing and is in this sense on the other side of its possessions – in the plane of indifference.

Keywords

correctness of name, Plato, image of the thing, lekton, Stoics, truth, indifference

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