Gorgias and Plato on lógos, Persuasion and Mistake
Keywords:
Sofistry, Images, Making, MistakeAbstract
In Sophist 234b-c Plato characterizes the sophist as a maker of “spoken images”. In order to clarify this art of the sophist, an analogy is proposed between painting and sophistry. This analogy has been criticized as involving an illegitimate assimilation between visual and spoken images, or between the objects of seeing and statements/beliefs. I argue in this paper for a different interpretation. Plato deals with mímesis as a kind of making something (poiésis) rather than as a kind of acquiring something (ktêsis) that is or has already come into being. He focuses on the making prior to the product.
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