Plato, Theaetetus 169e8â171c7: The Self-Refutation Argument and What Protagoras Is Right About

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Chapter 6 Plato, Theaetetus 169e8â171c7: The Self-Refutation Argument and What Protagoras Is Right About

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This paper offers a detailed reconstruction of the so-called Self-Refutation Argument against Protagorasâ âMeasure Doctrineâ (MD) for which âevery appearance is trueâ (Theaet. 169e8â171c7): the relevant textual and theoretical issues are critically considered such as: whether the argument is meant to refute an âinfallibilistâ MD (every appearance is true simpliciter) or a relativist MD (every appearance is true for the subject who has it); whether the argument is meant to refute a âqualifiedâ relativism (MD is true) or a global relativism (MD itself is true for those who believe it); whether the argument is generally successful or not, and how its logical, dialectical, rhetorical and phenomenological dimensions are deeply interwoven; which relations connect MD with the epistemological doctrine that knowledge is perception and with the ontological doctrine that âeverything is becomingâ; how the âbroadeningâ of MD into the thesis that âall beliefs are trueâ is crucial for the success of the argument; how the many steps of the argument are inferentially related.

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New Explorations in Plato's Theaetetus

Belief, Knowledge, Ontology, Reception

Series:Â Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 10

Cover New Explorations in Plato's <i>Theaetetus</i>

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004516014

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Print Publication Date:: 13 May 2022

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Section 1 The Theaetetus and Plato

Section 2 Relativism between Ontology and Epistemology

Section 3 Maieutics, Sophistry, Philosophy

Section 4 Images of the Cognitive Soul

Section 5 Belief, Knowledge, Ontology

Section 6 The Theaetetus beyond Plato

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