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Plato's beard
 | This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. (August 2023) |
In metaphysics, Plato's beard is a paradoxical argument dubbed by Willard Van Orman Quine in his 1948 paper "On What There Is". The phrase came to be identified as the philosophy of understanding something based on what does not exist.[1]
- ^ Cook, Jane (2013). American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. pp. 186. ISBN 9781595555410.
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