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A few comments in support of what you said: In the Apology Socrates says: Note how often knowledge and its cognates are used in the text I bolded. Far...

I am hesitant to discuss Aristotle for two reasons. First, I simply do not understand him. Aristotle Hides (see section on Aristotle in the link) and ...

The common ground is Plato's texts. Something you have avoided citing. The real problem seems not to be that there is no common ground but that the di...

As quoted above, the argument is about "all things which come to be". If the soul comes to be then the soul perishes. If all things that come to be co...

You told me you would tell me how you have always done it:

Your turn

Right. But as I said, I don't find the argument persuasive. The question is whether we would see things as equal if we did not have the idea (eidos, F...

Physical things.

The argument refers to things not Forms. What is bigger comes from what is smaller.

From the Phaedo:

The argument is that equal things remind us of "the equal itself". That we get knowledge of the equal from things: Rather than looking at it in terms ...

My reading of Plato is informed by the idea of the reader as active participant, to think along with what is said, to take into consideration who he i...

There was some discussion of Equals I don't find the argument persuasive. Socrates says he is not talking about one thing being equal to another (74a)...

This is a good overview.

Sure frank. You claim that my interpretation is a brand of neoplatonism, but when you cannot support that claim you say it is a moot point. If it is a...

You have made one point that I agree with: And one that I partially agree with:

This makes no sense. You claimed that my interpretation is a brand of neoplatonism. You have not been able to make an argument in defense of that clai...

You could label it this way, but who else labels it this way? Unless you can cite this as established usage by historians it means no more than that y...

An essential part of contemporary Plato scholarship includes not only how he has been interpreted but how he is being interpreted. Arguments are made ...

In the Phaedrus Socrates compares the well written work to a living animal with each part having a function working together to form a whole. This tel...

So any interpretation of Plato that presents a cohesive narrative is neoplatonist?

What is that "certain way" of filling in the blanks?

I did not take it as an insult. It is because neoplatonism is not singular that I asked what elements of neoplatonism you find in what I said.

I am surprised to hear that. What elements of neo-platonism do you find?

In the Republic Socrates says: Since bad things are part of the whole of what is, the Good and the Whole cannot be the same. Why the Good cannot be kn...

Thanks Tom. Good to hear. I put a lot of time and effort in and sometimes wonder if anyone is even reading.

For anyone that might be interested, the post is mostly excerpts from a few different forum threads I started.that provide greater textual analysis an...

The Forms are said to be the things themselves of which things in the visible world are images, but what do we know of Forms beyond what we are told? ...

In the Phaedo Socrates calls Forms hypothesis. In the dialectic of the Republic too the Forms are hypothetical, and remain so unless or until one is a...

Where do you imagine the meaning of words comes from if not the use of words? Are you really unaware that this is what I have been doing? You recogniz...

The etymological shift was yours: To determine the meaning of a term we should attend to its use. Put differently , in order to gain knowledge of what...

What you mean by knowledge is not the same as what the term has meant throughout its history. The same goes for the terms philosophy and wisdom. Accor...

This is by your own lights: If Plato's writings count as philosophy then it is evident that philosophy deals with self-knowledge. What does love of wi...

Aesthetics and ethics and doctrines about aesthetics and ethics are not the same. A way of looking and seeing, and a way of being or living are experi...

I do recognize that there is a problem. I also agree that this is not a new problem. A troubling new development, however, is "deep fakes". This techn...

I am not arguing in favor of a skeptical nightmare. What I am arguing is that more information is not the solution to misinformation because that addi...

The issue under discussion is whether there should be deterrents. The effectiveness of deterrents remains to be seen.

Legal action cannot undo what has been done but when sources are held legally responsible and fines significant then they will be more cautious and di...

Fox News is being sued for false allegations against Dominion Voting Systems. The power to determine that they repeatedly and knowingly lied does not ...

It pleases me that you think my opinion is unassailable, so I am somewhat reluctant to say that what you attribute to me is not my opinion. My point i...

Do you accept that not all "information" is fact based? What if such "information" is used to falsely and unjustly accuse a group of people, thus lead...

I am pistically atheist and epistemically agnostic. Lacking knowledge I make no claims about gods but I am not uncertain in terms of what I believe an...

What do you hope to gain by refuting a claim I did not make? Not everyone who has watched Tucker Carlson invariably accepts whatever he says, but the ...

It is not a question of what I do or do not accept, but of what is widely accepted. By putting it in these terms you have demonstrated why thinking in...

Performer and audience typically occupy different positions, separated by a stage, and subject to rules of etiquette that vary with musical style. In ...

Writing and making music overlaps with but is not the same thing as entertainment. There may be original music we have never heard because it lacks wh...

An extreme conclusion without exception is not a logical conclusion. Should deliberate misinformation be accepted? Arguing that we have or should such...

What is it that one is embracing or rejecting about historicism? Schuringa's claim is that: An examination of social and political forces is not histo...

There are several questions that must be addressed: What presuppositions inform the conclusion that reason is historical? Does the movement of history...

Do you see this as being at odds with the history of analytical philosophy? Did Moore or Russell or Frege see it this way? I do not wish to quibble, b...