Magic or Magia? Plato's Sophist I

A discussion of the arguments in Plato's Sophist concerning the nature of what is real, and of the implications of the apparent conclusion that the One, as well as being unchanging, is also subject to change.

This is a short paper dating from October 1994, with a new expository introduction (May 2019), suggesting the importance of its argument for our understanding of the context of the dialogue and the various propositions which appear in the course of the dialogue. The article also contains an overview of the sections of the dialogue.


The paper is available in PDF format from the Zenodo Open Access Repository at CERN. Downloadable without the need for a signup.


Yaeger, Thomas. (2019, June 2). Magic or Magia? Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3237026