Notice this demand is senseless:
What is “showing”? Nothing, according to him. What is “observable”? Nothing.
He seems to be asking for something, but isn’t, because nothing is anything, according to him.
He has to accept Platonism long enough to ask his question.
What is “showing”? Nothing, according to him. What is “observable”? Nothing.
He seems to be asking for something, but isn’t, because nothing is anything, according to him.
He has to accept Platonism long enough to ask his question.
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But if he accepts Platonism enough to ask, he answers himself: whatness is found in the place where he saw what “to show” and “to observe” are.
A “show me” demand refers to something that can be seen, that is, a look, ἰδέα in Greek.
To ask to be shown is to accept Platonism—that the truth of being can be seen, and thereby known as true.
Remember that he denies this. And yet he suddenly becomes a Platonist when he speaks. Cratylus was right: if you reject essence, you reject λόγος, reason/speech also.
Remember that he denies this. And yet he suddenly becomes a Platonist when he speaks. Cratylus was right: if you reject essence, you reject λόγος, reason/speech also.
One could “reject Platonism” by attributing some definite dogmatic doctrine to Plato and rejecting that—but since Plato doesn’t have any of those, it wouldn’t accomplish much.
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