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Leodamas of Thasos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of Thasos, Archytas of Tarentum and Theaetetus of Athens, by whom the theorems were...of his name with that of Archytas and Theaetetus that he spent his productive years in...This association with Archytas and Theaetetus suggests that he must have been a considerable...
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Euclid
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...many of Eudoxus ’ theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus ’ , and also bringing to irrefutable demonstration...relationship to Plato ’ s associates, Eudoxus and Theaetetus, is borne out by his own works; and if he were a Platonist...
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Plato
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Archytas of Tarentum were his friends, and Eudoxus of Cnidus, Theaetetus, and Menaechmus his colleagues or pupils. His critics assert...with wide approval: many scholars hold that Parmenides and Theaetetus were written later than the Republic , and that a group of...
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Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...you try to become pregnant with other conceptions, and if, Theaetetus, you succeed, you will become great with better conceptions...know. These are the limits of my art. source: Socrates in Theaetetus 210B – C. The "invention" of the dialogue form...
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Knowledge
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...orthodoxos ) of specialists, and finally the summit, epist ē m ē , the best and highest knowledge. In the Theaetetus, what sets epist ē m ē apart from true opinion is called an aitias logismos, a reasoned account, explaining...
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Leo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x201C; a little younger than Leo ” ; and since he has earlier made Leodamas contemporary with Archytas and Theaetetus, this puts the active life of Leo in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It is not stated in so many words that...
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Change
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...these two theses Plato draws the conclusion that (3) Heracleitus maintained that contradictory propositions were true (Theaetetus 182 – 183). In fact, Heracleitus seems to have held a more defensible, if still radical, view. Plato probably...
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Truth
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...428 – 348 or 347 b.c.e.) and held the stage in Western theories of truth through the eighteenth century. At Theaetetus 188c – 189b, Plato considered what is sometimes called the "existence" theory of truth: true opinion is thinking...
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