Plato by Plato & John M. Cooper

Author:Plato & John M. Cooper [Grube, G.M.A. & Cooper, John M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

1. Prodicus was a well-known Sophist who was especially keen on the exact meaning of words.

2. Empedocles (c. 493–433 B.C.) of Acragas in Sicily was a philosopher famous for his theories about the world of nature and natural phenomena (including sense-perception).

3. Frg. 105 (Snell).

4. Frg. 133 (Snell).

5. Socrates draws a square ABCD. The “lines through the middle” are the lines joining the middle of these sides, which also go through the center of the square, namely EF and GH.

6. I.e., the eight-foot square is double the four-foot square and half the sixteen-foot square—double the square based on a line two feet long and half the square based on a four-foot side.

7. Socrates now builds up his sixteen-foot square by joining two four-foot squares, then a third, like this:

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