Introduction Part I. The Issue of the Justification of Plato's Essentialism: 1. The raising of the ti esti question 2. How to answer the ti esti question 3. The thesis of the priority of definition Part II. The Role of Aporia and the Root of Plato's Essentialism: 4. What are Plato's early dialogues about? 5. Whether-or-not questions and agonistic argument 6. Whether-or-not questions and the articulation of aporiai 7. Aporia-based inquiry aiming at knowledge 8. What is behind the ti esti question? Bibliography General index Index of passages cited.
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