Conceptual Patterns in Plato&#039;s Parmenides

Christoph Poetsch

doi:10.5771/9783465102922

Summary

What is the notorious second part of Plato´s Parmenides all about? How does this second part help to face the systematic problems raised in the first part of the dialogue? To answer these questions, Christoph Poetsch develops a fundamentally new approach to what is perhaps the most controversially discussed text in the history of philosophy. By adapting methods from statistical linguistics and data science, he is able to detect hitherto unnoticed conceptual patterns in the deductions of Parmenides´ exercise. These patterns provide crucial new perspectives on the scope of the dialogue´s second part and offer means to address the problems raised in the first. Ultimately, the patterns suggest a complex constellation of multiple subjects and produce new evidence concerning the second deduction´s corollary, Plato´s ontology in general, as well as his concept of participation.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 9783465002925
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-10292-2
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Language: English
Pages: 204
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
1. Introduction No access Pages 9 - 14
1. § 1. Method and Preliminaries No access
2. § 2. Statistical Evaluation No access
3. § 3. Previous Research No access
1. § 4. Particles as a Control Group No access
2. § 5. Being, Becoming, and Appearance No access
3. § 6. Change and Alteration No access
4. § 7. Appearance No access
5. § 8. Some Rare Terms No access
6. § 9. Characterisation of the Sections No access
7. § 10. Multiple Subjects No access
8. § 11. Concluding Remarks No access
1. § 12. A Geometric Analogy No access
2. § 13. Interpretative Core Thoughts No access
1. § 14. A Constellation of Being, Becoming, and Appearance No access
2. § 15. The Sensible Realm No access
3. § 16. The Realm of the Soul No access
4. § 17. Previous Statistical Evidence No access
5. § 18. The Realm of the Forms No access
6. § 19. A Tripartite Ontology and the Concept of Participation No access
7. § 20. A First Principle No access
8. § 21. Some Rare Terms Revisited No access
9. § 22. Concluding Remarks No access
1. § 23. The Second Major Question No access
2. § 24. The Greatest Aporia No access
3. § 25. Evaluation of the Solution to the Greatest Aporia No access
4. § 26. The First Regress Argument No access
5. § 27. Evaluation of the Solution to the First Regress Argument No access
6. § 28. General Characterisation of the Proposed Solution No access
7. Conclusion and Outlook No access Pages 134 - 136
1. Appendix A No access
2. Appendix B No access
3. Appendix C No access
Bibliography No access Pages 188 - 195
Index nominum No access Pages 196 - 197
Index rerum No access Pages 198 - 199
Index locorum No access Pages 200 - 204