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1 How to read the Sophist  r.r The many appearances of the Sophist  r.2 The ancient search for the skopos  r.3 The basic problem of the Sophist  r.4 Philosophical digressions  2 The sophist and the philosopher  2.r The question of what the sophist is  2.2 The question of what the philosopher is  2.3 The sophist of noble lineage  2.4 The images of the sophist and philosopher  3 How the sophist appears  3.r Defning the sophist  3.2 From various appearances to the essence  3.3 The investigatory use of appearance  3.4 How to deal with appearances  4 Analysis of the structure of appearance  4.r Analysing the appearance of the sophist  4.2 The activity of controverting  4.3 The sophist, experts and audience  4.4 The structure of appearance  5 Appearance and image  5.r Introduction of the concept of an image  CONTENTS  5.2 The sophist as imitative artist  5.3 Making, the maker and the product  5.4 Showing, the viewer and the viewpoint  5.5 The imitation model and the appearance-reality contrast  5.6 Two kinds of image  5.7 The defnition of image  6 The sophistic counter-attack on philosophy  6.r The sophistic counter-attack in the Middle Part6.2 Four diffculties raised   6.3 The diffculty concerning what is not  6.4 The diffculty concerning falsehood  6.5 The diffculty concerning image   6.6 The diffculty concerning appearance  6.7 Conclusion: between Eleatic and Protagorean 7 The philosophic defence against sophistry  7.r The philosophic defence in the Middle Part  7.2 The possibility of dialogue (242b -25ra)  7.3 Performing the art of dialectic (25ra -259d)  7.4 Statement, judgement and phantasia (259d -264b)  8 The fnal defnition of the sophist   8.r The art of apparition-making   8.2 Imitation of the wise   8.3 Irony of the ignorant   8.4 Contradiction-making  8.5 Conclusion: the nature of the sophist