N.
[Names], relative and non-relative, iii. [232 n.];
Pythagorean theory, [304 n.], [316 n.];
mystic sanctity of, [323 n.];
distinction of divine and human, [300 n.];
natural rectitude of, ii. [89], iii. [286 n.], [300 n.], [306 n.];
connected with doctrine of Ideas, [286 n.], [327 n.];
difficult to harmonise with facts, [323];
the essence of things, [305 n.];
things known only through names, not true, [320];
the thing spoken of suffers, [287 n.];
forms of names and of things nameable, [289];
didactic instruments made by law-giver on type of name-forms, [287], [290], [313];
onomastic art, [ ib.];
proofs cited from etymology, [299], [300 n.], [307 n.];
specimens of ancient etymologies, [307 n.], [308 n.], [309 n.], [310 n.], [311 n.];
not caricatures of sophists, [302], [304], [306-12], [314 n.], [317 n.], [321], [324];
Plato’s idéal, [325], [328 n.], [330];
compared with his views on social institutions, [327];
Homo Mensura the counter theory of language, [326 n.];
intrinsic aptitude of, for particular things, [289];
consists in resemblance, [313];
vary in degree of aptitude, [318];
first imposer of, a Herakleitean, [302 n.], [314-7], [319 n.];
how they have become disguised, [312];
changes hard to follow, [315];
Herakleitean theory admitted, [310];
some names not consistent with it, [319];
the theory uncertain, implicit trust not to be put in names, [321], [325];
see [Language].
[Nature], course of, the ultimatum of Demokritus and moderns, i. [73], [ib. n.];
all proceedings of, conducted according to fixed laws, iii. [286];
Greek view of, hostile to philosophical speculation, i. [86];
interdependence of, ii. [247];
antithesis of law and, [333], [338], i. [197];
also in Indian philosophy, [162];
φύσει and κατὰ φύσιν, iii. [294 n.], iv. [309 n.];
Aristotle, [387 n.];
uncertainty of referring to, ii. [340], iv. [194], i. [162];
meaning of law of, ii. [341 n.];
Mill on number of ultimate Laws of, iii. [132];
no object in, mean to the philosopher, [61].
[Necessary] truth, iii. [253 n.]
[Necessity], means Freewill in Plato, iv. [221];
kosmos produced by joint action of reason and, [238].
[Negative], Plato’s view of the, erroneous, iii. [236]. [239];
predications disallowed by Menedêmus, i. [170].
[Negative Method], harshly censured by historians of philosophy, i. [123];
preponderated in Plato’s age, [ ib.];
erroneously attributed to Sophists and Megarics, [371], [387];
the charge brought by contemporary Athenians against Sokrates, [388];
Sokrates and Plato its champions, [vii], [x], [372];
Sokrates the greatest Eristic of his age, [124];
first applied negative analysis to the common consciousness, [385], [389 n.];
to social, political, ethical topics, [385];
the Megarics shared with Plato the negative impulse of Sokrates, [126];
Academics, [131 n.];
negative and affirmative veins in Plato distinct, [399], [403], [420];
the negative extreme in Parmenidês, iii. [71], i. [125];
overlooked in Kriton, [433];
well illustrated in Lysis, ii. [177];
the affirmative prominent in his old age, i. [408];
its necessity as a condition of reasoned truth, [91], [371], [373], [387], [395 n.], [421], ii. [186], i. [130];
a value by itself, iii. [51], [70], [85], [ 149-50], [176], [184 n.], [284], [422];
a necessary preliminary to the affirmative, ii. [186], [201];
essential to control of the affirmative, iii. [92 n.], i. [123];
its difficulties never solved, iii. [51];
see [Dialectic].
[Nemesius], relativity of mental and sensational processes, iii. [122 n.]
[Newton], accused of substituting physical for mental causes, ii. [402 n.]
[Nile], inundation of, explanation of Anaxagoras, i. [58 n.]
Νόμιμον, equivocal use, ii. [38].
[Nominalism], first protest against Realism, Antisthenes, i. [164];
of Stilpon, [167].
[Nomos], idea of law less extensive than, i. [380 n.], [382 n.], ii. [92 n.];
omnipotence of King, i. [378], [380], [392 n.], [424], ii. [333];
Sokrates an exception, [ ib.];
Plato’s and Aristotle’s theory of politics to resist King, i. [393 n.];
Plato appeals to, iv. [24 n.];
Epiktêtus, i. [388 n.];
common sense of a community, its propagation, ii. [274];
no common End among established νόμιμα, iii. [282 n.], iv. [204 n.];
see [Authority], [Orthodoxy].
[Noumenon] of Kant agrees with Parmenidês’ ens, i. [21].
[Number], the principle of Pythagoreans, i. [ 9-12], [14];
differs from Plato’s Idea, [10];
its modern application, [ ib. n.], [14 n.];
limited to ten, according to Plato and Pythagoreans, [11 n.];
the Greek geometrical conception of, iii. [112 n.];
mean proportionals, iv. [224 n.];
see [Arithmetic].