In the previous post we were examining three dimensional clusterings of the Platonic dialogues as rated on scaled Principal Components 1, 2 and 5, a technique that allowed us to see the early Platonic dialogues (as defined by Vlastos) standing apart from the middle and later ones. Vlastos’ claim, we remember, was that these early […]
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Platonic Dialogues and the “Two Socrates”
I have been thinking for a while now that Docuscope preserves, in its tagging structure, what a translator preserves — that this is a good definition of what it is looking to classify. One way to test this hypothesis would be to try Docuscope on a set of translations, which is what I’ve tried to […]