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absurdity according ambiguity analogy answer antilogic appears argument Aristotle Aristotle's assume believe Cave certainty Charmides conclusion consequences consistency contradiction contradictory Cornford Cratylus deducing definition dialectic dialectician discussion distinction doctrine of Communion early dialogues Eleatic entails epagoge eristic essence Euthydemus Euthyphro everything evidence example existence explain fact fallacy false follows give Glaucon Gorgias Hippias Minor hypo hypothesis hypothetical method hypothetical syllogism images implies indirect inference intelligible interpretation intuition kind Line logical logos mathematicians mathematics means merely middle dialogues movements namely nature never notion objects opinion Parmenides Parmenides Plato passage Phaedo Phaedrus philosophy positing procedure proposition Protagoras question question-and-answer reality reason refutand refutation regarded Republic seems sense sensible Socratic elenchus Sophist sort soul statement suggested surely syllogism teachable Theaetetus theory of Forms theory of Ideas thesis things tion true truth unhypothesized beginning upward path verb virtue is knowledge word Zeno