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Phaedo 70c: An Error and an Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

T. M. Robinson
T. M. Robinson
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University of Toronto
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , June 1969 , pp. 124 - 125
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1969

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References

1 Wolfe, J., ‘A Note on Plato’s “Cyclical Argument” in the Phaedo’, Dialogue V (1966), pp. 237–238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 As (A) ‘being asleep’ (καθε η δειν-present infinitive) is the opposite pole of (B) ‘being awake’ (γρηγμρ ναι-perfect infinitive with present meaning), so (C) ‘being alive’ (ξ ν-present infinitive) is the opposite pole of (D) ‘being dead’ (τεθνναι-perfect infinitive with present meaning). The processes producing the first two states are ‘falling asleep’ (καταδαρθνειν-present infinitive) ‘waking up’ (νεγε ρεσθαι -present infinitive of an ν-compound); in similar fashion the processes producing the latter two states are ‘dying’ (πμθν σκειν -present infinitive) and ‘coming back to life’ (ναβι ώ σκσθαι -present infinitive of an ν-compound).