Likeness and likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato /
The Greek word eoikos can be translated in various ways. It can be used to describe similarity, plausibility or even suitability. This book explores the philosophical exploitation of its multiple meanings by three philosophers, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Plato. It offers new interpretations of the w...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Xenophanes' fallibilism
- 2. Parmenides' allusive ambiguity
- 3. Plato's Timaeus
- 4. Imitation and limitation in Timaeus' proemium
- Conclusion.