Referential Opacity and Hermeneutics in Plato’s Dialogue Form

The paper argues that Plato’s dialogue form creates a Quinean “opaque context” that segregates the assertions by Plato’s characters in the dialogues from both Plato and the real world with the result that the dialogues require a hermeneutical interpretation. Sec. I argues that since the assertions i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard McDonough
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi 2013-12-01
Series:Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/251-278-mcdonough-meta10-tehno.pdf