Plato''s Account of Falsehood - A Study of the Sophist

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Crivelli is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Aristotle on Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Klappentext Plato's Account of Falsehood discusses recent secondary literature on the falsehood paradox! providing original solutions to several unsolved problems. Zusammenfassung In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines Plato's Sophist and shows how Plato's brilliant solution to the falsehood paradox is radically different from those put forward by modern philosophers. His book will be important for all who are interested in the Sophist and in ancient ontology and philosophy of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The sophist defined; 2. Puzzles about not-being; 3. Puzzles about being; 4. The communion of kinds; 5. Negation and not-being; 6. Sentences, false sentences, and false beliefs; Appendix: the Sophist on true and false sentences: formal presentation.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Crivelli, Paolo (Universite De Geneve) Crivelli, Paolo Dr Crivelli, Crivelli Paolo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521199131
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19913-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE period – Protohistory