Linguaggio e rappresentazione nel "Cratilo" di Platone

Connecting the reasoning of Thrasimachus in the Republic with some passages of the Cratylus is possible to show that Plato had a rigorous theory of the language according to which not in the world but in the language, in the language questioned by the philosophical interrogation, is hidden the truth of entities. In the names, according to this theory, if the names are true, hides the essence of the things and if the nomothetes in its activity as a manufacturer of names come assisted by a dialectical philosopher it's possible to have an appropriate vocabulary to show the world katà philosophian. In the Dialogues the point of view of the author is not assigned to one or another of the characters, but to the whole dialogic exchange between interlocutors and so Cratylus and Socrates, in the Cratylus, are confronted in an argumentation from which - if we have a kind of reader's participation in the ongoing research - emerges that the way that the names resemble the things wich are named concerns not the letters and the syllabes from which they are composed, but the image which they create in the soul of those who uses, pronounces and listens to them.