Plato's epistemology
Subtitle: how hard is it to know?
By: Elizabeth A. Laidlaw-Johnson.
Series: American university studies.; v. 173
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub.; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Plato.; Knowledge, Theory of.
Description: Plato's thought evolves from the epistemology of the Meno, Phaedo, and Republic to the Combined Doctrine of the Theaetetus. The Combined Doctrine maintains that both Forms and certain objects rooted in perception are objects of knowledge. Dialectic results in apprehension of the Good, and consequently of being, which brings about a permanent change in a person's state of mind enabling one to know what one previously believed.

The Combined Doctrine resolves the paradoxes of the refutations of the Theaetetus. It turns out that the difference between true belief and knowledge for Plato amounts to difference in states of mind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-134) and index.