Here is the question: what constitutes a good explanation of phenomena? Whereas true being (forms) can be known through dialectic, concrete phenomena can only be explained. An explanation is verisimilar of dialectical knowledge as concrete things are images of eternal ones. Ashbaugh shows how Plato subtly develops the notion of imaging and explaining, accounting for how physical things can be different from forms and how they are connected to forms.
| ISBN: | 9780887066078 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1988 |
| Author: | A Freire Ashbaugh |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 195 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Philosophy |