Image & paradigm in Plato's Sophist / David Ambuel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.

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The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a complex puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy and the imitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new, unconventional i.

CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- Dramatic setting -- Statement of the problem (216a� 217b) -- Paradigms (217b� 219a) -- Diaeresis: The method of division -- Speusippus -- Diaeresis in Aristotle -- Diaeresis in the dialogues -- Diaeresis in the -- Preliminary summary of Platonic diaeresis -- The angler (219a� 221c) -- Diaeresis in the Sophist -- [omitted] and [omitted] (art and knack) -- The attributes of sophistry -- First definition: The sophist as hunter (221c�223b)

Second, third, and fourth definitions: The sophist as huckster (223c�224e)Fifth definition: The sophist as verbal athlete (224e�226a) -- Sixth definition: The sophist as educator (226a�231c) -- A [omitted] (opinionative knowledge) (231c�233d) -- PART TWO -- Images -- The image-making art (233d�236c) -- The vocabulary of imitation -- [omitted] (image) -- [omitted] (appearance) -- [omitted] (likeness) -- The theory of participation -- Image and imitation in the Sohpist -- Not-being (236d�239e) -- Opposition -- Not-being and images (239e�240c)

False opinion (240c�242b)The more accurate analysis of being (242b�244d) -- [omitted] (what is) -- The Sophist and the Parmenides -- Whole and part (244d�246a) -- The senses of being -- Being and difference -- The less accurate analysis of being (246a�248a) -- The earth-born -- [omitted] (power) -- The friends of the forms (248a� 249d) -- Recapitulation: The perplexity of being (249d�251a) -- PART THREE -- The modes of combination (251a�252e) -- The definition of dialectic (252e�254b) -- The communion of kinds (254b�255e)

The five greatest kinds, in outline[omitted] and [omitted] -- The definition of not-being (255e�257a) -- The reductio ad absurdum -- Kinds and forms -- Oppositions again -- False statement (259b�264b) -- Being as truth -- Truth and falsity, truth and ignorance -- On saying, saying something, and saying something that is -- Conclusion (264b�268a) -- PART FOUR -- SOPHIST TRANSLATION -- 216a�217b -- 217b�219a -- 219a�221c -- 221c�223b -- 223c�224e -- 224e�226a -- 226a�231c -- 231c�233d -- 233d�236c -- 236c�239c

239c�240c240c�242b -- 242b�244d -- 244d�246a -- 246a�248a -- 248a�249d -- 249d�251a -- 251a�252e -- 252e�254b -- 254b�255e -- 255e�257a -- 257b�259b -- 259b�264b -- 264b�268d -- APPENDIX ON OWEN AND SOME OTHERS -- Is being� is�? -- Participation -- Rosen on participation and the Sophist -- The parity assumption -- The elusive existential is� -- A point of grammar -- Selective interpretations -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Editions and Translations -- INDEX

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