Гипотетический метод Платона: стоит ли возобновлять дискуссию?
The hypothetical method in Plato: Is a discussion useful?

Summary/Abstract: The article formulates a block of problems related to the understanding of the hypothetical method of Plato, first of all, its structure and direction of argumentation, whether the hypotheses are aimed at establishing their own truth or the truth of something else, whether the hypothetical method depends on the success of geometry or vice versa, whether mathematics uses the method proposed by philosophers. The main interpretations of the method are analyzed, the differences between them are shown, and the positions are reconstructed according to which consensus is established regarding the method. The hypothetical method was created for the specific task of knowing the unknown, which is also accompanied by some problem, as well as for cases where the unknown is searched on the basis of a hypothesis, which, in turn, is unprovable, unverifiable and not self-evident. It is concluded that discussions about the hypothetical method cannot be considered dead-end or exhausted, and if we intend to understand how ancient epistemology is evolving, we cannot get around the question of the hypothetical method.

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