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- Title
Indiscernibles and Plato's Forms vs. Parmenides.
- Authors
Carmichael, Jenny
- Abstract
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 in relations between forms and particulars: absurdities that are avoided if the form and its instantiation in the particular are identical.
- Subjects
SOCRATES, ca. 469-399 B.C.; PARMENIDES, of Elea; INFINITE regress; MATHEMATICAL logic; PHILOSOPHY; WHOLE &; parts (Philosophy); INDIVIDUALITY; QUANTITY (Philosophy)
- Publication
Stance (1943-1880), 2013, Vol 6, p37
- ISSN
1943-1880
- Publication type
Article