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Record W2017675725 · doi:10.1163/156852810x506012

Simplicius on the Theaetetus (In Physica 17,38-18,23 Diels)

2010· article· en· W2017675725 on OpenAlex
Stephen Menn

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Bibliographic record

VenuePhronesis · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyProblem of universalsSOCRATESEpistemologyAncient philosophyDreamArgument (complex analysis)LiteraturePsychologyChemistryArt

Abstract

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Abstract Aristotle in Physics I,1 says some strange-sounding things about how we come to know wholes and parts, universals and particulars. In explicating these, Simplicius distinguishes an initial rough cognition of a thing as a whole, an intermediate “cognition according to the definition and through the elements,” and a final cognition of how the thing’s many elements are united: only this last is πιστήμη. Simplicius refers to the Theaetetus for the point about what is needed for πιστήμη and the ways that cognition according to the definition and through the elements falls short. By unpacking this reference I try to reconstruct Simplicius’ reading of “Socrates’ Dream,” its place in the Theaetetus’ larger argument, and its harmony with other Platonic and Aristotelian texts. But this reconstruction depends on undoing some catastrophic emendations in Diels’s text of Simplicius. Diels’s emendations arise from his assumptions about definitions and elements, in Socrates’ Dream and elsewhere, and rethinking the Simplicius passage may help us rethink those assumptions.

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DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.746
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
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