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Early Greek philosophy

Note 444 — Chapter IV · PARMENIDES OF ELEA

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As Diels rightly points out, the Ionic φατίζειν is equivalent to ὀνομάζειν. The meaning, I think, is this. We may name things as we choose, but there can be no thought corresponding to a name that is not the name of something real.

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