Abstract

Resumen: El trabajo aspira a iluminar la particular dinamica refutativa utilizada en el Cratilo de Platon para defender la tesis convencionalista. Si bien Socrates parece refutar dos posiciones antiteticas sirviendose de argumentos de la una contra la otra, el dialogo despliega un complejo desarrollo dialectico por el cual, en primer lugar, se rechaza una particular concepcion del convencionalismo ligado al relativismo que no sera la admitida por Socrates hacia el final. Por otro lado, en lo que refiere al naturalismo, la dinamica dialectica conlleva dos momentos claramente diferenciables, el primero de los cuales supone sacar a la luz todo lo envuelto o vinculado a la tesis naturalista; y, el segundo, de corte refutativo, que constituye una argumentacion progresiva contra aquello que fue montado en la primera parte del dialogo, de suerte que la argumentacion no implicaria un continuo, sino que se plantearia de forma escalonada. Esta particular refutacion explicaria concesiones parciales al naturalismo que, en ultima instancia, sin embargo, sera rechazado tajantamente. Palabras‑clave: Platon, Cratilo , Dialectica, Refutacion. Abstract: The purpose of this work is to illuminate the particular refutative dynamics used in Plato’s Cratylus to defend the conventionalist thesis. Although Socrates seems to refute two antithetical positions using arguments from one position against the other, the dialogue displays a complex dialectical development that supposes a refutation of, on the one hand, a particular understanding of conventionalism linked with relativism, which is not the one that Socrates accepts in the end. And, on the other hand, regarding naturalism, the dialectical dynamics involves two different moments: the first one brings all the ideas involved or linked in the naturalistic thesis to light; and the second one implies a progressive argumentation against the whole built in the first part of the dialogue, so that the argumentation would not be a continuum but rather would involve different stages. This particular refutation would explain partial concessions to naturalism that in the end will be flatly rejected. Keywords: Plato, Cratylus , dialectic, refutation.

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