Plato: Complete Works (containing Sophist, trans. Nicholas P. White); locus Sophist 261d-263e¶
Plato, C. (1997). Plato: Complete Works (containing Sophist, trans. Nicholas P. White); locus Sophist 261d-263e. Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge.
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Primes¶
- Proof By Contradiction
- In philosophy reductio ad absurdum has been a primary tool since Plato, refuting claims by deriving absurd consequences, and ethical thought experiments test principles by extending them to cases the principle itself would call absurd.
This sourceThe elenchus refutes a claim by deriving absurd consequences from it — the philosophical ancestor of reductio ad absurdum.
- In philosophy reductio ad absurdum has been a primary tool since Plato, refuting claims by deriving absurd consequences, and ethical thought experiments test principles by extending them to cases the principle itself would call absurd.
Domain-specific¶
- Diairesis
- In Plato's Sophist, the Eleatic Stranger works from art toward the angler and recapitulates the retained divisions as an account of that craft.
This sourceThis entry does not assert that the sophist is already assigned to either branch at 236c.
- In Plato's Sophist, the Eleatic Stranger works from art toward the angler and recapitulates the retained divisions as an account of that craft.
- Plato's Beard
- Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
- Unity of the Proposition
- Plato’s Sophist distinguishes a name–verb combination that says something from a mere sequence that does not
This sourceSophist 261d-263e, where the Visitor argues that a string of names or of verbs says nothing while a name woven with a verb ('Theaetetus sits') is a logos that is true or false; Cooper and Hutchinson, Plato: Complete Works (Hackett, 1997), ISBN 978-0-87220-349-5, Sophist translated by Nicholas P. White, is the edition for the Stephanus locus.
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- Plato’s Sophist distinguishes a name–verb combination that says something from a mere sequence that does not
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