Oct 06
Plato’s Rationalism, and Aristotle by Stewart Shapiro – 2. PLATO ON MATHEMATICS
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- adept: is an individual identified as having attained a specific level of knowledge, skill, or aptitude in doctrines relevant to a particular author or organization
- axiomatic: evident without proof or argument; of or pertaining to an axiom; obvious (layman)
- exegetical: related to an exegesis, which is the interpretation and understanding of a text on the basis of the text itself
- gnomon: pronounced NO-mon, a Greek word meaning “the one who knows.” The gnomon is the pointer on a sundial, the part of the sundial that “knows” the time
- interlocutor: a person who takes part in a conversation
- par excellence: being the best of its kind; being a quintessential example of the kind in question
- truth-value: a proposition
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