FICTION IN PLATO
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol1Iss2a241Keywords:
Plato, fiction, truth, falsityAbstract
In philosophy, fictions are employed in different manners: metaphors, hypothesis, mental experiments and postulates, whose theoretical falsity is admitted, but which are nonetheless used because of their practical value, or because they can contribute to shape rationality. This procedure is not alien to Plato, who employs fictions profusely in his dialogues. This paper has two parts: the first one makes a quick review of the history of the meanings of “fiction” (focusing the lexical family of plassō/plasma) in order to underline the philosophical relevance of its connotations. In the second one, I argue in favor of reading “fiction” to refer to one of the two senses of falsity –a sense we could call conscious falsity– that Plato distinguishes in Republic II-III.
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