Crossword-Solution: CRATYLUS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRATYLUS (5)
Thou must know that what Plato, in the “Cratylus,” made Socrates say in jest, the learned among us practise in sad earnest.
Most of the jests appear to have a serious meaning; but we have lost the clue to some of them, and cannot determine whether, as in the Cratylus, Plato has or has not mixed up purely unmeaning fun with his satire.
CRATYLUS By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION CRATYLUS INTRODUCTION The Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student of Plato.
And in the Cratylus we have no reason to assume that Socrates is either wholly right or wholly wrong, or that Plato, though he evidently inclines to him, had any other aim than that of personifying, in the characters of Hermogenes, Socrates, and Cratylus, the three theories of language which are respectively maintained by them.
The two subordinate persons of the dialogue, Hermogenes and Cratylus, are at the opposite poles of the argument.
Quotes with CRATYLUS (1)
And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one …