Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in order.
- He posits Forms as the objects definitions aim at
- Plato identifies why definitions by example keep failing
- Socrates practises the elenchus and leaves no written doctrine
- The theory assigns Heraclitus and Parmenides each a domain
- His followers take different lessons and found rival schools
Hints
- The rival schools arise from the absence of a settled doctrine.
- The reconciliation of the Presocratics is a consequence of the theory, not its motivation.
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- Socrates practises the elenchus and leaves no written doctrine
- His followers take different lessons and found rival schools
- Plato identifies why definitions by example keep failing
- He posits Forms as the objects definitions aim at
- The theory assigns Heraclitus and Parmenides each a domain
Why
The sequence runs from a method with no doctrine, through the disagreement that absence produced, to a theory motivated by a Socratic problem, with the Presocratic reconciliation arriving as a bonus rather than as the aim.
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