TY - BOOK ID - 21505993 TI - Plato's account of falsehood : a study of the Sophist PY - 2012 SN - 9781107699731 9780521199131 9781139015004 0521199131 1107699738 9781139206020 1139206028 9781139204446 1139204440 9781139203036 1139015001 1139199420 1107223857 1280484292 9786613579270 1139205226 1139203037 113920162X PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sophistes (philosophie grecque) KW - Platon, KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Ontology KW - Language and languages KW - Meaning (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Plato. KW - Ontology. KW - Truthfulness and falsehood. KW - Ontologie KW - Mensonge KW - Langage et langues KW - Signification (Philosophie) KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Believability KW - Credibility KW - Falsehood KW - Lying KW - Untruthfulness KW - Reliability KW - Truth KW - Honesty KW - Being KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Substance (Philosophy) KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Sophist (Plato). KW - Post-truth KW - Platon KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language and languages - Philosophy KW - Plato. - Sophist UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21505993 AB - Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, and is therefore not there to be said or believed). In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines the whole dialogue and shows how Plato's brilliant solution to the paradox is radically different from those put forward by modern philosophers. He surveys and critically discusses the vast range of literature which has developed around the Sophist over the past fifty years, and provides original solutions to several problems that are so far unsolved. His book will be important for all who are interested in the Sophist and in ancient ontology and philosophy of language more generally. ER -