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Zina Giannopoulou - The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus - Journal of the History of Philosophy 43:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 43.3 353-354 David Sedley. The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. x + 201. Cloth, $60.00. Scholarly interest in the Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic treatment of knowledge, has been recently on the rise. While comprehensive studies, such as Myles Burnyeat's The Theaetetus of Plato and Ronald Polansky's Philosophy and Knowledge: A Commentary on Plato's Theaetetus , have valuably illuminated existing interpretative debates, they have also either neglected or treated marginally some of the dialogue's most thorny philosophical issues (such as, for example, the puzzling formal..