Sunday, 28 June 2026

Major works meeting

• Continuing De Rerum Natura
• Starting from line 750 of Book IV, “The Senses”
• Ending at the end of Book IV, around line 1280
• Next week we’ll begin Book V

Minor works meeting

• Review of Plato’s Theaetetus
• Starting Sophist from just after 221c
• Stopping at the beginning of 221c

Ending summary:

So far we welcome a visitor to the lyceum. And he is to give an account of what a sophist is by asking questions to theatetus for the audience. Before they can cover a subject important like this they agree to demonstrate the methodology by defining with words a different profession, namely an angler, which is a kind of fisherman. They start by agrteeing on the name, and then by differentiating categories they narrow down what it is preceisely that makes an angler and angler. Therefore they have a name and a definitino or an account.