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

Taha Karagöz

doi:10.18800/arete.2022ext.012

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

Authors

Taha Karagöz Sorbonne University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2055-1569

Taha Karagöz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Leon Robin Research Center on Ancient Thought of Sorbonne University in Paris, where he is currently preparing a dissertation titled “The Problem of Individuation in Aristotle. Unity, Movement and Rest”. Along with ontological, linguistic, and psychological problems in ancient philosophy, his research also extends to contemporary continental philosophy, especially Heidegger. He teaches courses on these topics in various institutions in Istanbul.
tahakaraz@gmail.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/arete.2022ext.012

Keywords:

Sophist, Logos, Koinōnia, Articulation, Predication, Homologia

Abstract

In the Sophist, Plato presents the possibility of the separation of things in relation to each other based on the communion (koin?nia) 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.

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Published

2022-03-28

How to Cite

Karagöz, T. (2022). Three Aspects of the Linguistic Communion (Koin?nia) in Plato’s Sophist: Articulation of Letters, Predication of Names and Accord (Homologia) of Logoi. Areté, 34(Número ext), 215–234. https://doi.org/10.18800/arete.2022ext.012