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2019-10-07 NSPRM - Plato - Parmenides (Prologue 136c) - Dialectic in the Hypotheses

Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session. Today we read Prologue 136c Highlights from Barbara We went to #4 of Zeno's Exercise, a.k.a. the Dialectic method. 136c Pierre suggested three ways of understanding the quote “any other that one may choose” in #4 at 135c3 We explored Socrates' quote just after the dialectic method was given where he asks for an example of hypothesizing a “self”. We considered that all the hypotheses could have been Parmenides answer to that question. Pierre also suggested that we use and master Proclus' Dialectics on Likeness and Unlikeness, Motion and Rest and the Many rather than the laborious and, to PG, impossible method of looking at these terms as they are set forth in all the hypotheses. That would be a way of “doing” dialectic exercise. He also ask us to match up the 1,2,3 of Zeno's exercise with the hypothesis that it might match. (These are marked in the Balboa translation) Gina suggested we look at 151A, (but it was just above 151B) for “Selves and Others“ it is perhaps the only place in the Third Hypothesis where the plural occurs with others. The set of “Selves in relation to others” is one of the

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