Abstract
The theory of forms put forward by the young Socrates in the first half of Plato's Parmenides is subjected to seemingly crushing criticism by the ageing Parmenides, who nonetheless holds out hope that the criticisms may be answered by practising the method of 'hypothesis' which occupies the second half of the dialogue. But Parmenides' preliminary account of his own 'hypothesis' (137 a 7-b 4) is entangled in difficulties, both of grammar and of logic. The purpose of the pages that follow is to solve these difficulties, and to show that scholars as rightly eminent as Waddell and Cornford, as well as a number of more recent writers, have failed to grasp the implication of the passage in its context.
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