Rethinking Deduction Five of Plato’s Parmenides (160b5-163b6)

The fifth “deduction” in Plato’s Parmenides (160b5-163b6) concerns the consequences that follow for a (or the) one from the hypothesis that it is not. I argue that the subject of this hypothesis is, effectively, any Form, considered just insofar as it is one Form. The hypothesis, I further argue, do...

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Main Author: Thomas Tuozzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2021-10-01
Series:Plato
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/10333