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Truth And Falsehood In Plato's Sophist, Michael Oliver Wiitala
Truth And Falsehood In Plato's Sophist, Michael Oliver Wiitala
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
This dissertation is a study of the ontological foundations of true and false speech in Plato’s Sophist. Unlike most contemporary scholarship on the Sophist, my dissertation offers a wholistic account of the dialogue, demonstrating that the ontological theory of the “communing” of forms and the theory of true and false speech later in the dialogue entail one another.
As I interpret it, the account of true and false speech in the Sophist is primarily concerned with true and false speech about the forms. As Plato sees it, we can only make true statements about spatio-temporal beings if it …