Hermogenes

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Hermogenes is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Cratylus," where he participates in a philosophical discussion with Socrates about the correctness and nature of names.

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Hermogenes canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic character
fictional character
appearsIn Cratylus
appearsInWorkBy Plato
associatedWithPhilosopher Plato
Socrates
associatedWithPhilosophicalTradition Ancient Greek philosophy
createdBy Plato
dialogueWith Socrates
discussesTopic conventionalism about language
correctness of names
etymology
nature of names
hasNameOrigin Ancient Greek name Hermogenes
languageOfOriginalWork Ancient Greek
literaryGenreOfWork Socratic dialogue
philosophicalPositionAttributed names are correct by convention
philosophicalPositionContrastedWith Cratylus
relatedConcept conventionalism
naturalism about language
philosophy of language
reference (philosophy of language)
semantics of names
relatedWork Euthyphro
Theaetetus
roleInWork interlocutor of Socrates
settingOfAppearance Athens
workPartOfCorpus Dialogues of Plato
surface form: Platonic dialogues

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