Abstract

A close reading of the dilemmatic argument and of the discussions of the three senses of logos by which Socrates appears to refute the proposal that knowledge is true judgment together with a logos. I argue that the determinateness of each of Socrates' arguments implies further lines of thought for the reader and that these lead to an understanding of the relations of intuition and discourse in inquiry and of the compossible simplicity and complexity of the object of knowledge. These lines of thought find their home, as it were, in the critical turn to the conception of forms in the Parmenides and in the practice of dialectic in the Sophist and the Statesman.