NAME AS A MANIFESTATION OF “SOMETHING” IN THE EARLY STOICS PHILOSOPHY: HERMENEUTIC ANALYSIS
The article analyzes the name category in the context of Stoic Physics. The name is regarded as the creation and representation of the highest kind of being “something” that determines the content and naming order. “Something” turns out to be the basis of the generative ability of the name, connecting it with the modes of corporeal, incorporeal and imaginary. “Something”, encompassing the spheres of being and existing, represents the limit of naming, the horizon of any categorical definition and designation, through it and thanks to it, everything existing and, above all, the name gains access to being, the status of “(in) born”. “Something”, therefore, is also a generative ability that deals with the system of relations between the corporeal and incorporeal, and the corporal and imaginary, incorporeal and imaginary. The name is involved, to one degree or another, in all modalities: the corporeal, the incorporeal, and the imaginary. Considering the name through the prism of relationships, namely, as a naming activity, the conclusion is drawn about the genetic transitivity and determination of the name by “something”.