This figure explains the five “great kinds” in a dialogue where he tries to defend the idea that people can say and think things that are not the case. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure, who detours into a grand metaphysical discussion concerning how failing to have a property is possible, sidetracking a conversation with Theaetetus about what the title profession does in Plato’s Sophist.
ANSWER: the Eleatic stranger
[10m] The Eleatic stranger’s interest with non-being references this Eleatic pre-socratic who argued that non-being is impossible. This thinker presents the “greatest trouble” for the theory of forms in a namesake dialogue.
ANSWER: Parmenides (“par-MEN-uh-deez”)
[10e] The Parmenides begins just after this student of Parmenides defends his master’s thesis that change is impossible by presenting arguments showing that motion leads to paradoxes.
ANSWER: Zeno of Elea
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