Knowledge, simplicity, and predication: essays on Plato's _Theaetetus_
| dc.contributor.author | Meyvis, Nathan | |
| dc.contributor.chair | Brennan, Tad R | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bennett, Karen | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Brittain, Charles F | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-07T12:48:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-08T06:00:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7298/X4F47M8C | |
| dc.identifier.other | Meyvis_cornellgrad_0058F_10312 | |
| dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:10312 | |
| dc.identifier.other | bibid: 9948904 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/51680 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Socrates | |
| dc.subject | uniformity | |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | |
| dc.subject | logos | |
| dc.subject | metaphysics | |
| dc.subject | Plato | |
| dc.subject | predication | |
| dc.title | Knowledge, simplicity, and predication: essays on Plato's _Theaetetus_ | |
| dc.type | dissertation or thesis | |
| dcterms.license | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810 | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Cornell University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D., Philosophy |
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