10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THIRD MAN ARGUMENT»
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Plato Critical Assessments
Is the Third Man Argument a valid objection to the Theory of Forms? Did Plato
believe that it was valid? One can find acute and learned critics on both sides of
both of these basic questions. I write as the beneficiary of their controversies, but
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Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation
R. E. Allen, 339-78); G. C. Nerlich, "Regress Arguments In Plato," Mind 69 (1960):
88-90; Julius Moravcsik, "The Third Man Argument and Plato's Theory of Forms,"
Phronesis 8 (1963): 50-62; D. A. Rees, "Plato And The Third Man," Part II.
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Substance and Predication in Aristotle
Frank A. Lewis. 1 Aristotle on Plato's Third Man Argument and the Anti-Platonism
of the Categories Aristotle's Categories is at heart a contentious work.' Ironically,
it shares its main target with Plato's own critique of the Platonic theory of forms ...
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Studies in Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics
He insisted on strict adherence to evidence in the text, and when he saw no
evidence for a plausible philosophical reconstruction, he rejected it — as is
evidenced in some of his replies concerning the Third Man Argument. Moreover,
he ...
Gregory Vlastos, Daniel W. Graham, 1996
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third man argument (commonly referred to as TMA), first offered by Plato in his dialogue Parmenides, is a philosophical criticism of Plato's own theory of Forms.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics
6 Aristotle's criticism, based on Plato's theory of essence: the third-man argument
But Aristotle also argues that Plato's theory of essences as separate and distinct
forms leads to absurd consequences even on its own merit and independently ...
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The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy: Translation of ...
Aristotle's testimony and the discussion of the Third Man by Alexander
Aphrodisias7 do seem to require an unacceptable third. The proper paradigm for
what I take to be a real Third Man Argument is one that has a first man (the
individual) ...
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Plato and Socrates (RLE: Plato): A Comprehensive ...
VLASTOS G., “Plato's 'Third Man' argument (Parm. 132a1-b2). Text and Logic".
PhilosQ XIX 1969 289-301. Reprinted (with changes) p.342-365 in Vlastos G.,
Platonic Studies (see 4622). YAMAKAWA T., “ The third Man. An Interpretation of
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The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Miller, M. Plato's Parmenides (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986).
Moravcsik, J. M. E. ''The ''Third Man'' Argument and Plato's Theory of Forms,''
Phronesis 8 (1963), 50–62. Owen, G. E. L. ''Notes on Ryle's Plato,'' in LSD, 85–
103 ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Plato
13 An enormous vogue for this sort of thing was established by Gregory Vlastos, "
The Third Man Argument in Plato's Parmenides," Philosophical Review 63 (1954)
: 319-49. Other notable contributions are those of Wilfred Sellars, "Vlastos and ...
