Cognitive Identity in Platonic Epistemology

Cognitive identity is the doctrine that in knowing the rational soul is identical with the object that is known. Although some of Plato’s successors adhere to this doctrine, conventional wisdom suggests that Plato does not. Lately, however, Lloyd Gerson (2003; 2006; 2009) has suggested a Platonic ar...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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