Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth

What is the nature of truth? Blake E. Hestir offers an investigation into Plato''s developing metaphysical views and examines Plato''s conception of being meaning and truth in the Sophist as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus Parmenides and Theaetetus where Plato begins to focus more directly on semantics rather than only on metaphysical and epistemological puzzles. Hestir''s interpretation challenges both classical and contemporary interpretations of Plato''s metaphysics and conception of truth and highlights new parallels between Plato and Aristotle as well as clarifying issues surrounding Plato''s approach to semantics and thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient Greek philosophy metaphysics contemporary truth theory linguistics and philosophy of language.