Parmenides

Notes – Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato’s Sophist

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Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato’s Sophist INTRODUCTION: BEING AND NON-BEING, TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD IN PLATO’S SOPHIST Notes by Stacy Cacciatore “Ontology is the theory of objects and their ties. ” “It provides criteria for distinguishing different types of objects (concrete and abstract, existent and nonexistent, real and ideal, independent and dependent) and their ties (relations, … [Read more…]

Preplatonic Philosophers

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Stacy Cacciatore     To understand Plato and Socrates, we must first understand the philosophers that came before them. At first, I was confused at the difference between the terms “Presocratics” and “Pre-platonics”. Nietzsche coined the term, “Preplatonics” because he posited that Plato was the first philosopher that included components of the other philosophers that … [Read more…]