Theaetetus

Plato. Theaetetus.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Link

https://atlas.perseus.tufts.edu/library/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg006.perseus-eng2/

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Dialectic
  • The method is grounded in four constitutive components: (1) the elenchus refutation cycle

    This sourceContains Socrates' description of his method as intellectual midwifery (maieutics) and the elenchus/cross-examination that exposes contradiction and ends in aporia; supports the elenchus-refutation-cycle component (182).

Domain-specific

• Absent-Minded Professor
  • In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates recounts Thales studying the stars, falling into a pit, and being mocked for seeking knowledge of the heavens while missing what was at his feet.

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• https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0171:text=Theaet. ×1

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