Three Aspects of the Linguistic Communion (Koinōnia) in Plato’s Sophist: Articulation of Letters, Predication of Names and Accord (Homologia) of Logoi

In the Sophist, Plato presents the possibility of the separation of things in relation to each other based on the communion (koinōnia) of logos. In this study, I discuss the linguistic communion revealed in the dialogue by illuminating its three fundamental aspects: (1) Articulation of letters in na...

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Author: Karagöz, Taha
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:PUCP-Institucional
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/185793
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/25068/23761
https://doi.org/10.18800/arete.2022ext.012
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Sophist
Logos
Koinōnia
Articulation
Predication
Homologia
Sofista
Lógos
Koinōnía
Articulación
Predicación
Homología
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.03.01
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Summary:In the Sophist, Plato presents the possibility of the separation of things in relation to each other based on the communion (koinōnia) of logos. In this study, I discuss the linguistic communion revealed in the dialogue by illuminating its three fundamental aspects: (1) Articulation of letters in names as communion on the syntactic level, (2) Predication of names in logoi as communion on the semantic level, (3) Homologoi of logoi as the ultimate communion of language. I thus conclude that these three linguistic aspects are interdependent.