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Ἀνα τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον

Author(s) -

Bernard Suzanne

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

plato journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2183-4105

pISSN - 2079-7567

DOI - 10.14195/2183-4105_23_6

Subject(s) - analogy , allegory , reading (process) , philosophy , expression (computer science) , cave , line (geometry) , epistemology , linguistics , literature , mathematics , art , history , computer science , programming language , archaeology , geometry

Answering articles by Smith (PJ 18) and Matoso (PJ 22) about the Divided Line, I argue that the problems Smith raised and Matoso pretended to solve don’t exist in a proper reading of the analogy and the ensuing allegory of the cave in light of one another and stem from a misunderstanding of the expression ἀνα τὸν αὺτον λόγον at Rep. VI, 509d7: the λόγος to be used to split both segments is not the one used to split the line in the first place, and it is not a numerical ratio, but a logical rationale.

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