I wrote the the OP. If you have questions, I will try to answer, but by giving an explanation I might simply be repeating myself and not addressing wh...
Language-games are more or less open-ended. The meaning of words can change. Whether or not a word is being used correctly is determined from within t...
If I say: "bad means good", is that in accord with or contrary to the rules of the language game? That depends on the language game is being played. A...
It is often assumed that Plato presents a dualist account consisting of Forms and sensible things, with Forms being the eternal truth and sensible thi...
When I was teaching an introductory level course in philosophy it was evident that many of the students were not reading the texts at all, or were rea...
I started doing this long before online search engines. Most of the books on my shelf are not available online. Although an online search is a valuabl...
Greater and smaller are relative terms when describing particular things, not the Forms themselves. Simmias is greater than Socrates and smaller than ...
What do you mean by overlays? You give an example of one of your own, strict adherence to logic and reason. While I see them as important, I think the...
I am still here, but for reasons that may be obvious to you and some others I have decided not to respond to what has transpired in this thread. I don...
It is meaningless to say that I am in pain and don't know it. But this use of the term 'know' is no the same as its use in other contexts. I agree and...
Metaphysics for Plato was speculative and contemplative play, a form of poiesis, the making of images of the whole and parts. Without knowledge of beg...
Wittgenstein's "tribes" are isolated peoples. Unlike the boy who knows something is happening that he does not quite understand, no one in this imagin...
It is a description of the sensation, although not an complete one. Right, although one would expect that when there is an expression of pain, a pain ...
It does more than just refer to a sensation. If it just referred to a sensation the word 'pain' would play no role. 'Pain' and 'S' are not the same. P...
Doesn't it do both? Isn't the word 'pain' itself a description? From it we know that the sensation is not pleasant, that it is something I want allevi...
Socrates presents an image of our education. Several important points follow from this. First, it should be kept in mind that Socrates, by his own adm...
I am truly sorry to hear that. Dialogic quickly degenerates into quarrelous disputation when some are more concerned with staking out and defending th...
The Forms are at rest and eternal. Being may be eternal but is not at rest. The Forms are said to be eternal and at rest. The category things that are...
Sometimes it is necessary to state the obvious: 'kinds' and 'forms' are English translations of the Greek ?????. Together with terms such as 'class', ...
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ?????: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%...
The "thing" is apples. They are all the same in that they are all apples. They are all the same kind of thing. I see from another of your responses th...
The question of whether he is a sophist or a philosopher cannot be adequately addressed until the question of who the philosopher is has been answered...
The first problem addressed in the dialogue is not the identity of the sophist but the identity of the philosopher. At the start of the dialogue Theod...
Is he mistaken in his opinion? If not, then what is the difference? Why is there a dialogue the Sophist and a dialogue the Statesman, but no dialogue ...
There is a lot more to the dialogues than Socrates pointing out the weaknesses of the arguments of others. I do not think it is a case of Plato dismis...
Right, and Plato's metaphysics must address both sides of this differentiation. On way side there is the vertical order of Forms. On the other side, t...
The ordinal numbers are orders of numbers. It applies to anything that is ordered in some way as first, second, third. Eidetic numbers are relations o...
I agree. This is something I have said to you many times over the months! And yet you say: Where does Plato say this? If you are referring to what Ger...
What is at issue is not that there are different kinds of number, but what is different about the eidetic kind: The point is that Being belongs to a h...
The problem is with number, but it is with number as understood by the Greeks, which is not the way we treat number. Aristotle identifies three kinds ...
Of course people can live lives that are regarded as good! More precisely: shit happens. There is a very good reason to discuss it. If there is no sys...
The term indeterminate dyad is Aristotle's. In the Timaeus two kinds of cause are identified: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/601558...
This is exactly what I am arguing cannot be done. There is no theoretical framework for a world that is indeterminate. Not a worry. A statement of fac...
I agree that it is a way of life. The question of the best life is of primary concern. Where we disagree is that what you take to be a fact is not a f...
I agree. The Platonic forms are fundamental in shaping our culture. What I am suggesting is that there is another side of Plato's philosophy. The inde...
Connecting this back to the Timaeus, what a craftsman makes, whether he is a house builder or the craftsman of the universe, human or divine, is more ...
In the Timaeus two kinds of cause are identified, intelligence and necessity. Necessity covers physical processes, contingency, chance, motion, and ch...
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