Abstract

Plato said that a compromise together with Xiao said the two agreed to send the statement, while noting that the question of words and things have their fixed relationship itself is not free, but on the other hand pointed out that the language also has its side of the convention itself and no original unity of things. In addition, language has its instrumental side, to express the meaning of things. The human language is the "name-maker" created by, and according to some rule such as that matter, shape the sound, knowing, turn injection and other laws to create the text. Knowledge of both languages ​​to express it in varying degrees referent of "true" and "false." Plato also advocated prior knowledge of the language, and language, meaning, one-third of such things say that they have on future generations are very far-reaching impact, future generations of linguists to be clarified. In his attempt to synthesize the differences between the Similarity Theory and the Convention Theory, Plato points out that even though language is conventional to a certain extent, there is still a union between the Word and the Reality which is by no means accidental. Language is instrumental and composed by human "name-makers" according to certain fixed laws. Language deals with the expression of truth and falsity at various degrees and at different levels. Plato's thesis of knowledge, as well as that of the tripartite division of language, meaning , and the thing signified, has had a profound influence on the philosophers of language in subsequent generations