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The "Megista Gene" of the "Sophistes"

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1969Publisher:JSTORJournal:Phoenix, volume 23, page 89 (issn: 0031-8299, Copyright policy )
Authors: J. A. Philip;

doi: 10.2307/1086570

The "Megista Gene" of the "Sophistes"

Abstract

FIVE COMMON CONCEPTS or megista gene-being, identity, difference, motion and rest-play a key role in the Sophistes.1 They are not an innovation. Allusion is made to them, and to similar concepts, in earlier dialogues. Already in the Phaedo (103E-105C) certain ideas having a mathematical character-equality, oddness, evenness-are recognized not as a special category but as functioning in special ways and having peculiar problems. It is in the Parmenides that we first encounter them as a grouping.2 There Parmenides introduces them as similar ideas

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