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contemporarywiththelinguisticturnandwiththeerawhenthe
structuralismanditstextualapproachwasinfashioninhumanities.
SomestudiesonSophistregardthesubjectoftalking,thinking,or
communicating(legein)whentheproblemofnon-beingisanalyzed
becauseofafamouspassagefromSophist[237BC],andsomemono-
graphsonPlato’stheoryofformstouchuponthissubjectaswell.5
SomeworksonPlato’sTheatetuswhichwerepublishedinlastfew
yearsexplorePlato’sthoughtonlanguagefromtheperspectiveofhis
conceptionofknowledge.6Itisobviousthatthedialoguesof“thelate
period”arecommonlyconsideredasimportanttoPlato’sconceptof
knowledge;thevalidexceptionistherecognitionofimportanceof
GorgiastoPlato’sdialectics.7Animportantexampleofanattemptto
reconstructholisticallytheepistemologyofPlatoisgivenbyNicholas
P.White,8althoughitisclearthatauthorusestheanalyticalap-
proachtoPlato’sdialogues.Hiswayofreadingofthelocutiafrom
Respublic,althoughverysimilarincontentandsometimesanalogi-
calinconclusions,isdifferentfrommineinthewayofanalysis.
Whiteexploresthestructureofargument,butheisnotinterestedin
theanalysisofPlato’snotionsdescribingthedifferentwaysofex-
ploringandperceivingtheworld.
WhilecontemporarystudiesonepistemologyandontologyofPlato
maybecomplexandmayincludethesubjectoflanguageandcom-
munication,modernstudiesonancienttheoryofgrammarandan-
cientphilosophyoflanguagestart,ingeneral,theirinquirieswith
theanalysisofAristotle’sworks.9Thatiswhy,Plato’stheoryoflan-
pp.152—176.CharlsKahncontinueshisstudyonthetheoryofformsanddialectics
inCratylusinhislaterwork.SeeC.H.Kahn:Theemergenceofdialectic.Reference
todialecticindialoguesearlierthantheRepublic.In:Idem:PlatoandtheSocratic
Dialogue.Thephilosophicaluseofaliteraryform.Cambridge1996,pp.306—307;
andC.Kahn:FormsinCratylus,Phaedrus,andbeyond.In:Op.cit.,pp.363—368.
5ForexampleL.P.Gerson:ADistinctioninPlato’sSophist.In:Plato.Critical
Assessment.Vol.IV,pp.125—141;J.Roberts:TheProblemaboutBeinginthe
Sophist.In:Plato.CriticalAssessment.Vol.IV,pp.142—157;G.Casertano:IlSofi-
sta.In:Idem:Ilnomedellacosa.Linguaggioerealt?negliultimidialoghidiPlato-
ne.Napoli1996,pp.86—214.
6See,forexample,G.Fine:PlatoonKnowledgeandForms.SelectedEssays.
Oxford2003.
7SeealreadyquotedC.H.Kahn:PlatoandtheSocraticDialogue…
8N.P.White:Plato’smetaphysicalepistemology.In:TheCambridgeCompanion
toPlato.Ed.R.Kraut.Cambridge1992,pp.277—310.
9See,forexample,GrammaticalTheoryandPhilosophyofLanguageinAntiqu-
ity.Eds.P.Swiggers&A.Wauters.Leuven—Paris—Sterling(Virginia)2002,
ORBIS/SUPPLEMENTA.MonographsPublishedbytheInternationalCenterofGe-
neralDialectology(Louvain),Vol.XIX.Thisruleseemstoworknotonlyinhistori-
