PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Sophist, Platonic Epistemology
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Semantic principle applies to the names of the virtues as well (441) Wisdom: knowledge of what is good for the individual as a whole. Courage: convistion about what ought and ought not to be feared. Justice: right constitution- each part performing the function for which it is best suited. Analogy to health- elements in their proper relations (444) the forms. The problem of how knowledge is possible. Knowledge true opinion (requires conclusive evidence as a justification) Socratic definition requires that we isolate what is common to all applications of the word: the set of properties common to all, that make them the kind of thing they are. Answer: a single entity (humanity) which is the essence of the class. "humanity" "human" - a syntactical relation (species to specimen) Anti-nominalism: if each specimen has its own name, discourse becomes impossible the. Physical things change, so stable knowledge of them is impossible.
