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Plato on the metaphysical foundation of meaning and truth / Blake E. Hestir

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Hestir, Blake E.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Stability -- Strong Platonism, restricted Platonism, and stability -- Concerns about stability in the Cratylus -- Flux and language in the Theaetetus -- The foundation exposed: Parmenides 135bc -- Combination -- Being as capacity and combination: a challenge for the friends of the forms -- The problem of predication: the challenge of the late-learners -- Truth -- Predication, meaning, and truth in the Sophist -- Plato's conception of truth -- Truth as being and a substantive property.
Summary
What is the nature of truth? Blake Hestir offers an investigation into Plato's developing metaphysical views, and examines Plato's conception of being, meaning, and truth in the Sophist, as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus, Parmenides, and Theaetetus, where Plato begins to focus more directly on semantics rather than only on metaphysical and epistemological puzzles. Hestir's interpretation challenges both classical and contemporary interpretations of Plato's metaphysics and conception of truth, and highlights new parallels between Plato and Aristotle, as well as clarifying issues surrounding Plato's approach to semantics and thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, contemporary truth theory, linguistics, and philosophy of language.
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9781316562727 (electronic bk.)
1316562727 (electronic bk.)
9781316450864 (electronic bk.)
1316450864 (electronic bk.)
9781107132320
1107132320
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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