Meyvis, Nathan2017-07-072019-06-082017-05-30Meyvis_cornellgrad_0058F_10312http://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:10312bibid: 9948904https://hdl.handle.net/1813/51680The 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.en-USSocratesuniformityPhilosophylogosmetaphysicsPlatopredicationdissertation or thesishttps://doi.org/10.7298/X4F47M8C