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Taxonomies of Plato's Statesman

by Elisa Barbierato & Spencer Scorcelletti

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(This page is still a WIP, as we are currently reading Statesman.)

The visitor from Elea accounts for ‘statesman’ by following the same pattern he establishes a moment prior, in Plato’s Sophist. He creates a taxonomy by finding divisions by which to group things and in the dialogue performs a kind of search of the tree that forms.

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