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  1. Conventionalism and Relativism in Plato's Cratylus.David Meißner - 2021 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 38 (2):119-135.
    In Plato's Cratylus, Hermogenes contends that the correctness of names is conventional. Appealing though this claim sounds to modern ears, it does not meet with approval in the Cratylus. Why? I argue that the conventionalism promoted by Hermogenes is discredited by unacceptable relativist implications because it incorporates the mistaken assumption that correct names are individuated exclusively by their phonetic composition.
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