Knowledge, simplicity, and predication: essays on Plato's _Theaetetus_
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The end of the Theaetetus, including Socrates' "Dream" and his three proposals about logos, raises a variety of epistemological and metaphysical problems. These essays attempt to illuminate some of them. In the first essay, I discuss the three logos-proposals and argue that Socrates' discussion here is, in a certain sense, epistemological and not metaphysical. In the second essay, I argue that the Platonic notion of uniformity (which appears in the Dream) has not been properly appreciated, and I offer a candidate interpretation. In the third essay, I argue that the distinction between being and becoming in the Dream, and elsewhere in Plato, should be understood as a difference in kinds of predication.
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2017-05-30
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Socrates; uniformity; Philosophy; logos; metaphysics; Plato; predication
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Brennan, Tad R
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Bennett, Karen
Brittain, Charles F
Brittain, Charles F
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Philosophy
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Ph. D., Philosophy
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Doctor of Philosophy
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