Plato on the metaphysical foundation of meaning and truth / Blake E. Hestir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hestir, Blake E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Truth.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning & Truth

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the nature of truth? Blake Hestir offers an investigation into Plato's developing metaphysical views, and examines Plato's conception of being, meaning, and truth in the Sophist, as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus, Parmenides, and Theaetetus, where Plato begins to focus more directly on semantics rather than only on metaphysical and epistemological puzzles. Hestir's interpretation challenges both classical and contemporary interpretations of Plato's metaphysics and conception of truth, and highlights new parallels between Plato and Aristotle, as well as clarifying issues surrounding Plato's approach to semantics and thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, contemporary truth theory, linguistics, and philosophy of language.

Contents:

Stability

Strong Platonism, restricted Platonism, and stability

Concerns about stability in the Cratylus

Flux and language in the Theaetetus

The foundation exposed: Parmenides 135bc

Combination

Being as capacity and combination: a challenge for the friends of the forms

The problem of predication: the challenge of the late-learners

Truth

Predication, meaning, and truth in the Sophist

Plato's conception of truth

Truth as being and a substantive property.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-55765-0

1-316-55999-8

1-316-56038-4

1-316-56116-X

1-316-56077-5

1-316-45086-4

1-316-56272-7