ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ: The method of Hippocrates of Chios and Plato's hypothetical method in the Meno, 2011
By: Karasmanis, Vassilis, Longo, Angela (Ed.), Del Forno, Davide (Coll.) (Ed.)
Title ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ: The method of Hippocrates of Chios and Plato's hypothetical method in the Meno
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2011
Published in Argument from Hypothesis in Ancient Philosophy
Pages 21-41
Categories no categories
Author(s) Karasmanis, Vassilis
Editor(s) Longo, Angela , Del Forno, Davide (Coll.)
Translator(s)
In this essay, I am going to argue that the Greek geometer of the late fifth century B.C. Hippocrates of Chios1 was the first who systematically employed a method of indirect proof called apagoge (reduction). Apagoge is probably the early stage of the geo­metrical method of analysis and synthesis, and consists roughly in reducing one problem (or theorem) to another. Reductions can be continued until we arrive at something already known, or at something that is possible to be solved directly. Finally, I shall support the view that «the method of geometers» to which Plato refers in the Meno is the geometrical method of apagoge. [introduction, p. 21]

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ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ: The method of Hippocrates of Chios and Plato's hypothetical method in the Meno, 2011
By: Karasmanis, Vassilis, Longo, Angela (Ed.), Del Forno, Davide (Coll.) (Ed.)
Title ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ: The method of Hippocrates of Chios and Plato's hypothetical method in the Meno
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2011
Published in Argument from Hypothesis in Ancient Philosophy
Pages 21-41
Categories no categories
Author(s) Karasmanis, Vassilis
Editor(s) Longo, Angela , Del Forno, Davide (Coll.)
Translator(s)
In this essay, I am going to argue that the Greek geometer of the late fifth century B.C. Hippocrates of Chios1 was the first who systematically employed a method of indirect proof called apagoge (reduction). Apagoge is probably the early stage of the geo­metrical method of analysis and synthesis, and consists roughly in reducing one problem (or theorem) to another. Reductions can 
be continued until we arrive at something already known, or at something that is possible to be solved directly. Finally, I shall support the view that «the method of geometers» to which Plato 
refers in the Meno is the geometrical method of apagoge. [introduction, p. 21]

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