Plato on the metaphysical foundation of meaning and truth /
What is the nature of truth? Blake Hestir offers an investigation into Plato's developing metaphysical views, and examines Plato's conception of being, meaning, and truth in the Sophist, as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus, Parmenides, and Theaetet...
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New York :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Stability
- Strong Platonism, restricted Platonism, and stability
- Concerns about stability in the Cratylus
- Flux and language in the Theaetetus
- The foundation exposed: Parmenides 135bc
- Combination
- Being as capacity and combination: a challenge for the friends of the forms
- The problem of predication: the challenge of the late-learners
- Truth
- Predication, meaning, and truth in the Sophist
- Plato's conception of truth
- Truth as being and a substantive property.
