Thinking, Believing, and the Realm of Appearances

This book investigates Plato''s later theory of knowledge with regard to perceptual cognition and its epistemological status. It is argued that, in Plato''s later dialogues, the three main cognitive phenomena related to acquaintance with the realm of perceptibles – sense-perception, appearance and belief – undergo a process of reciprocal conceptual disentanglement. As a result, the notions of sens...