The radicalization of the ÉLENCHOS: The recourse to truth as minimal dialectical condition en the THEAETETUS of PLATO

Abstract

In the first part of Theaetetus Socrates refutes three theses that he considers intimately linked: the  one that identifies knowledge and perception, the relativitic thesis and another about mobilism. The purpose of thos work is to show that in three of the refutations offered against these positionns the same strategy is displayed in order to refer to a dialetic prerequisite linked to a truth claim. This would constitute a radical strategy due to the fact that it questions the same possibility of espressing tis own thesis by the adversary.