Argument from similarity or Socrates' inspired vision: Part I?

• Main Author: Tarrant, Harold
• Other Authors: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Verlag 2018
• Subjects: Socretes; Phaedo; Sibelius; ancient commentators; Plato; Cygnus cygnus; Whooper Swan
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1405936

The 'argument from similarity' is not well regarded as an argument. But the wider passage, 77d5-84b4, contains much that is not argument, and many hints that it is intended to introduce the myth-like vision that follows at 107c-115a. It begins with the needs of the gathering to find some e...