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Plato's Cratylus, the extreme linguistic naturalist, holds that names cannot be arbitrarily chosen in the way that conventionalism describes or advocates, because names belong naturally to their specific objects. We try to expound upon this idea by a lively discussion of catcher's mitts and the English longbow.
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Plato's Cratylus, the extreme linguistic naturalist, holds that names cannot be arbitrarily chosen in the way that conventionalism describes or advocates, because names belong naturally to their specific objects. We try to expound upon this idea by a lively discussion of catcher's mitts and the English longbow.