Knowledge and Truth in the Greatest Difficulty Argument: Parmenides 133b4–134b5
Abstract One of Plato’s central tenets is that we can know forms. In Parmenides 133b4–134b5, Plato presents an argument whose sceptical conclusion is that we can’t know forms. Although he indicates that the argument doesn’t succeed, he also says it’s difficult to explain how it fails. Commentators h...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 209-234 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Parmenides
/ Knowledge
/ Truth
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Forms
B content vs. object B Knowledge B Truth B Immanence |
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