En el pasaje 179c-183b, Platón rechaza la explicación heraclítea extrema de la percepción mostrando que ella no puede cumplir con la condición (I): si es el caso que, al percibir x, x se mueve, pero no se altera, será posible describir a x como algo cualificado. Intentaré mostrar en este trabajo que..

In the passage 179c-183b, Plato rejects the extreme Heraclitean explanation of perception by showing that it cannot comply with condition (I): if while perceiving x, x moves, but does not change, it will be possible to describe x as something qualified. This paper intends to show that, for Plato, in order to comply with (I), there must be an explanation of perception in which the perception process is performed by an agent who undertakes other cognitive processes different from perception, such (...) as judging. This is a process through which, for every sensible object x, it is possible to have knowledge of x. (shrink)