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achievements are preserved or destroyed. The close relationship between logistikon and thymoeides results from the fact that the thymoeides deals with the sphere of doxa. That’s why it is more open to rational argumentation than the epithymētikon, whose primary sphere is sense perception. Plato’s well
’ Commentary on Plato’s Gorgias by publishing an English translation, 5 which brought out, among other things, the fondness of the author for discussing in his lectures the way in which Plato’s arguments could be recast in terms of Aristotelian syllogistic. 6 Platonists had been making efforts for centuries
), intelligence or the good (97b8–99d3) and Forms (100c3–102a10). The investigation into the cause exhibited here has become one of the most renowned and momentous passages in Plato’s dialogues, and an object of fierce scholarly debate in the literature. In comparison with a considerable amount of work on
): Strobach starts off with a thoroughgoing discussion of Plato’s doctrine of exaiphnes in Parm. 155e–157b (20–47). The profoundest discussion of the MOC, however, is in Strobach’s eyes to be found in Aristotle’s Physics (47–83), which had a strong influence both on the medieval logic of tense and time (84
of his time to task for not probing deeper into the foundations of their work (Republic , 510c2–e3, see section 3 below). Several modern authors have even suggested that Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine contained a theory of the foundations of mathematics, which would include the foundations of arithmetic
, 510c2–e3, see section 3 below). Several modern authors have even suggested that Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine contained a theory of the foundations of mathematics, which would include the foundations of arithmetic, sometimes suggesting a certain similarity with Frege’s foundational program, but this
Wittgenstein; hence the thematic focus “Foundations of Analytic Philosophy”. The volume further contains two additional articles: one on ancient philosophy (concerning Plato’s use of theories) and the other on medieval philosophy (concerning Ockham’s theory of concepts). In addition to our regular book review
philosophy in Plato’s dialogues. While Socrates claims that the god1 commands him to philosophize, and that he will obey this command above all else, he also insists on obeying Athenian Law when he is sentenced to death. If executed, it seems that Socrates would cease fullling the god’s command. Similarly
sentences. In Parmenides’ hands, this theory took the extreme form not only of being unable to make sense of falsehoods, but also of being unable to make sense of true negative predications. Secondly, it claims that Plato’s double theory of “limi- ted mixing” plus “negation as otherness” – as expounded in
the commentators’ hands, but even in those cases, the arguments used by the commentators to justify Plato’s choices are worth our attention, as they may reveal shared assumptions concerning the nature of syllogisms. Along the way, I will offer some suggestions as to why it makes sense to “invoke the