Plato on Not-Being

Nothingness in Asian Philosophy

“…The nature of the two alternatives presented by the Goddess hinges on how we must read the verb estin. Those who would take the estin in its existential sense, as advocated by Furley (1989), Gallop (1984), and suggested in remarks by Owen (1982), 4 see the Goddess as presenting an exclusive choice that reduces to the strong disjunction that something exists or does not exist (Gallop 1984, 67). From this interpretation of estin, we can understand the purpose of the Goddess's arguments in terms of ruling out two of the possible answers to the question "does it exist or not?…”

The Problem of Motion in the Sophist

“…The passage says that motion and rest Tsoth together' define being. Owen, 1970: 256-8, is opposed to this reading, but see Heinaman for a criticism of the overall approach taken by Owen. That is, motion and rest both together, but not separately, make relations possible.…”

La teoría unificada de las oraciones copulativas propuesta por Andrea Moro

“…αὐτὸ μὲν γὰρ οὐδέν ἐστιν, προσσημαίνει δὲ σύνθεσίν τινα, ἣν ἄνευ τῶν συγκειμένων οὐκ ἔστι νοῆσαι.11 Mucho se discute si Parménides, Platón y Aristóteles asignaron diversos sentidos al verbo ser. Véanse, por ejemplo,Ackrill 1957, Owen 1960, Owen 1965, Owen 2000, Frede 1967, Lewis 1975, Heinaman 1983, Gómez-Lobo 1985, Dancy 1986, Mates 1986, Brown 1994, Brown 2000, Ketchum 1990, Candel Sanmartín 2010, Bredlow 2011 y Calvo 2014. Ahora sólo me compete decir que, segúnMoro 2017 (pp.…”