Plato · thesis 5>53

Thesis 5>53

Latin

Opinio Cratyli de nominibus ita est intelligenda: non quod talia sint nomina, sed quod talia esse debent si sint recta.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23093

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition

English

Take the Cratylus's view of names this way: it is not a claim about what names actually are, but about what they would have to be, were they correctly formed.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23149; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23149; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 28.33 Nullae sunt litterae in tota lege quae in formis, coniunctionibus, separationibus, tortuositate, directione, defectu, superabundantia, minor
• 28.47 Per dictionem AMEN ordo habetur expressus quomodo numerationum procedant influxus.
• 2>80 Siqua est lingua prima et non casualis, illam esse Hebraicam multis patet coniecturis.
• 3>55 Qui ordinem hebraicae linguae profunde et radicaliter tenuerit, atque illum proportionabiliter in scientiis seruare nouerit, cuiuscunque sci
• 3>70 Cum tres fuerint qui dicerent omnia esse unum: Zenophanes, Parmenides, et Melissus, uidebit qui diligenter eorum dicta perscrutabitur, Zenop
• 5>54 Ideo dixit Socrates in Cratylo se somniare circa ideas, quia ideis non utimur in hoc statu, sed earum imaginibus proximis uel secundariis.
• 9>22 Nulla nomina ut significatiua, et inquantum nomina sunt singula et per se sumpta, in magico opere uirtutem habere possunt, nisi sint hebraic