– Overview:
– Term originated from ancient Greek, symbolizing a snake eating its tail.
– Socrates’ peritrope critiqued Protagoras’ theory.
– Sextus Empiricus named it in “Against the Logicians” around 200 CE.
– Socrates’ argument laid the foundation for classical propositional logic.
– Peritrope used to challenge skepticism about unknowable truth.
– See also:
– Related concept: Self-refuting idea.
– References:
– Works by Timothy Chappell, Michael Mendelson, and Francis Snare.
– Books by Christopher W. Tindale and M.F. Burnyeat.
– Publications by J. Carter and Robert Fogelin.
– External links:
– Fredric Burnyeat’s study on Protagoras and self-refutation.
– Timothy Chappell’s article on reading the peritrope.
– Notable mentions:
– Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Scruton, and Myles Burnyeat discussed peritrope.
– Modern philosophers like Edmund Husserl and John Anderson challenged relative truth.
– Plato’s argument against Protagoras’ definition of truth.
– Roger Scruton’s formulation of the peritrope.
– Paul Shorey’s analysis of Socrates’ peritrope.
