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Parmenides
Plato · c. 370 BCE · translated by Harold North Fowler
Plato takes his own Theory of Forms apart, including the Third Man regress. Philosophy’s great act of self-criticism.
19,776 words · 12 pages · about 1 h 30 min of reading
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