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The dialogue named for this man anticipates the binding problem by imagining sense data sitting like soldiers in the Trojan horse. Socrates tells this man a “dream theory” holding that “primary elements” can be named but not described, which Philosophical Investigations notes as a precursor of logical atomism. This man “sits” and “flies” in predication examples that Donald Davidson borrowed from The Sophist, (-5[1])which takes place a day after his namesake dialogue and stars him opposite the Eleatic (“el-ee-AT-ic”) Stranger. This (-5[1])snub-nosed (-5[3])mathematician describes (-5[1])his work on irrational magnitudes (-5[1])in a dialogue (10[1])in which Socrates reduces his proposed “perception”-based definition (-5[1])to the theory of flux. The dialogue titled for this man ends by rejecting a (10[1])theory of “true belief with an (10[2])account.” For 10 points, what man (10[1])titles (10[1])a Platonic dialogue about knowledge? ■END■ (10[4]0[16])

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