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The Transformation Of The Investigation Of F In Plato's Dramas Of Definition, David Wolfsdorf
The Transformation Of The Investigation Of F In Plato's Dramas Of Definition, David Wolfsdorf
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In this paper I consider which formal characteristics, if any, occur in the investigations. In addition, I am interested in whether there is a transformation of formal characteristics among the dramas of definition.
Methodologically, the paper focuses on what I call the surface claims and arguments of the text. By that I mean the explicit claims and arguments Socrates and his interlocutors make about the identity of F. This aspect of the texts is distinguished from their literary or dramatic aspects as well as any indirect claims and arguments about F, however these might occur. The neglect of the literary …