The Analysis of False Judgement According to Being and Not-Being in Plato’s
                  
                     Theaetetus (188c10–189b9)

Paolo Crivelli

doi:10.1515/agph-2020-0186

The Analysis of False Judgement According to Being and Not-Being in Plato’s Theaetetus (188c10–189b9)

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie ◽

10.1515/agph-2020-0186 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Paolo Crivelli

Keyword(s):

False Statement ◽

Plausible Answer ◽

Syntactic Ambiguities ◽

The Way

Abstract The version of the paradox of false judgement examined at Tht. 188c10–189b9 relies on the assumption that to judge falsehoods is to judge the things which are not. The presentation of the argument displays several syntactic ambiguities: at several points it allows the reader to adopt different syntactic connections between the components of sentences. For instance, when Socrates says that in a false judgement the cognizer is “he who judges the things which are not about anything whatsoever” (188d3–4), how should the clause “about anything whatsoever” be construed? In common with “he who judges” and “the things which are not” (in which case the cognizer would be “he who judges about anything whatsoever the things which are not about it”), or exclusively with “he who judges” (in which case the cognizer would be “he who judges about anything whatsoever the things which are not”)? The most plausible answer is that both construals are envisaged. Accordingly, the argument has two branches corresponding to these two alternative construals. In particular, it attempts to show that in both cases the cognizer will address what does not exist – an impossibility. The idea that a false judgement is concerned with what is not about its reference has a clear echo in the Sophist. The way in which the problem is handled in the Theaetetus provides a hint that can help to find a solution for the hotly debated issue of the interpretation of the Sophist’s account of false statement.

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Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18001796 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maria Babińska ◽

Michal Bilewicz

Keyword(s):

Clinical Psychology ◽

Historical Events ◽

Emotional Events ◽

Reciprocal Process ◽

The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

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What is the purpose of cognition?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19001626 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aba Szollosi ◽

Ben R. Newell

Keyword(s):

Infinite Number ◽

Human Cognition ◽

The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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Peculiarity Parameters

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100080581 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 233-254

Author(s):

H. M. Maitzen

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Field ◽

Magnetic Fields ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

Observational Evidence ◽

Rotator Model ◽

Peculiar Behaviour ◽

Field Spectrum ◽

Oblique Rotator ◽

Ap Stars ◽

The Way

Ap stars are peculiar in many aspects. During this century astronomers have been trying to collect data about these and have found a confusing variety of peculiar behaviour even from star to star that Struve stated in 1942 that at least we know that these phenomena are not supernatural. A real push to start deeper theoretical work on Ap stars was given by an additional observational evidence, namely the discovery of magnetic fields on these stars by Babcock (1947). This originated the concept that magnetic fields are the cause for spectroscopic and photometric peculiarities. Great leaps for the astronomical mankind were the Oblique Rotator model by Stibbs (1950) and Deutsch (1954), which by the way provided mathematical tools for the later handling pulsar geometries, anti the discovery of phase coincidence of the extrema of magnetic field, spectrum and photometric variations (e.g. Jarzebowski, 1960).

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The mensuration of interfaces

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010012148x ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 216-217

Author(s):

W.M. Stobbs

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

50Th Anniversary ◽

Numerical Data ◽

Industrial Applications ◽

Dynamical Theory ◽

Large Strains ◽

Reasonable Approach ◽

Lattice Resolution ◽

Analogue To Digital ◽

The Way

I do not have access to the abstracts of the first meeting of EMSA but at this, the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, I have an excuse to consider the historical origins of the approaches we take to the use of electron microscopy for the characterisation of materials. I have myself been actively involved in the use of TEM for the characterisation of heterogeneities for little more than half of that period. My own view is that it was between the 3rd International Meeting at London, and the 1956 Stockholm meeting, the first of the European series , that the foundations of the approaches we now take to the characterisation of a material using the TEM were laid down. (This was 10 years before I took dynamical theory to be etched in stone.) It was at the 1956 meeting that Menter showed lattice resolution images of sodium faujasite and Hirsch, Home and Whelan showed images of dislocations in the XlVth session on “metallography and other industrial applications”. I have always incidentally been delighted by the way the latter authors misinterpreted astonishingly clear thickness fringes in a beaten (”) foil of Al as being contrast due to “large strains”, an error which they corrected with admirable rapidity as the theory developed. At the London meeting the research described covered a broad range of approaches, including many that are only now being rediscovered as worth further effort: however such is the power of “the image” to persuade that the above two papers set trends which influence, perhaps too strongly, the approaches we take now. Menter was clear that the way the planes in his image tended to be curved was associated with the imaging conditions rather than with lattice strains, and yet it now seems to be common practice to assume that the dots in an “atomic resolution image” can faithfully represent the variations in atomic spacing at a localised defect. Even when the more reasonable approach is taken of matching the image details with a computed simulation for an assumed model, the non-uniqueness of the interpreted fit seems to be rather rarely appreciated. Hirsch et al., on the other hand, made a point of using their images to get numerical data on characteristics of the specimen they examined, such as its dislocation density, which would not be expected to be influenced by uncertainties in the contrast. Nonetheless the trends were set with microscope manufacturers producing higher and higher resolution microscopes, while the blind faith of the users in the image produced as being a near directly interpretable representation of reality seems to have increased rather than been generally questioned. But if we want to test structural models we need numbers and it is the analogue to digital conversion of the information in the image which is required.

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Representing the Way to Language Learning and Expression

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac6.4.3 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 3-4

Author(s):

Beth Mineo Mollica

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

The Way

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Process \'prǎ|,ses\n: The Action of Moving Forward Progressively from One Point to Another on the Way to Completion

Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders ◽

10.1044/jshd.4401.03 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 3-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Carol A. Pruning

Keyword(s):

Process Model ◽

Communicative Behaviors ◽

Adult Level ◽

Remedial Programs ◽

Stage Process ◽

The Way

A rationale for the application of a stage process model for the language-disordered child is presented. The major behaviors of the communicative system (pragmatic-semantic-syntactic-phonological) are summarized and organized in stages from pre-linguistic to the adult level. The article provides clinicians with guidelines, based on complexity, for the content and sequencing of communicative behaviors to be used in planning remedial programs.

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