IS IT POSSIBLE TO LEARN THE THING WITHOUT THE NAME?

Abstract

Cratylus is the platonic dialogue that he has as central theme the language. The dialogue is a debate on the conceptions naturalist and conventionalist of the language presented and refuted by Plato for they take not to the true knowledge. Due to that limitation Plato proposes an ideal language acted in the statement that is possible to learn the things without the name. The purpose of that article is to expose the three language conceptions discussed by Plato, to point the relationship between language and knowledge by the idea that it is possible to learn the things without the name, to establish relationship with the orality starting from passages of the Letter Seventh, of Fedro and of the Quibbler. For so much, it will be exposed, compared and related passages that treat of the objects here studied. It is ended that is impossible to learn the things without the words if taken in his relationship with the orality. In the dimension of the spoken language, the knowledge generated in the game dialogue sends not only to the knowledge of the thing, but to the knowledge of that seeks apprehend, to language while speech also guarantor of knowledge, because the logos boat to same role that episteme.