Open AccessThree Aspects of the Linguistic Communion (Koinōnia) in Plato’s Sophist: Articulation of Letters, Predication of Names and Accord (Homologia) of Logoi
Author(s) -
Taha Karagöz
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
areté/areté
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.148
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2223-3741
pISSN - 1016-913X
DOI - 10.18800/arete.2022ext.012
Subject(s) - sophist , articulation (sociology) , linguistics , relation (database) , logos bible software , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , political science , theology , database , politics , law
In the Sophist, Plato presents the possibility of the separation of things in relation to each other based on the communion (koinōnia) of logos. In this study, I discuss the linguistic communion revealed in the dialogue by illuminating its three fundamental aspects: (1) Articulation of letters in names as communion on the syntactic level, (2) Predication of names in logoi as communion on the semantic level, (3) Homologoi of logoi as the ultimate communion of language. I thus conclude that these three linguistic aspects are interdependent.