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16Indiscernibles and Plato’s Forms vs. ParmenidesStance 6 (1): 37-43. 2013.In Parmenides, the young Socrates defends several candidate forms against Parmenides, who makes five objections: the objection of forms of common things, the question of the part vs. the whole, the third man argument, infinite regress, and the greatest difficulty problem. I define forms in terms of Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) in an attempt to overcome Parmenides’ opposition. I show that the main force in Parmenides’ objections consists of absurdities that emerge i…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |