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• 1. Introduction; 2. The inconclusive character of the Phaedo's arguments; 3. The dialectical function of the method of hypothesis; 4. Dialectical progression in the discussion of suicide; 5. The dialectical function of the cyclical arguments; 6. The recollection argument's introduction of the Forms hypothesis; 7. The turn to the nature of soul in the affinity argument; 8. Soul as substance in Socrates' response to Simmias; 9. Toward the nature of soul in the final argument; 10. Justified belief on the way to first principles; 11. Mythologia and the Philosophic Life.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. The inconclusive character of the Phaedo's arguments; 3. The dialectical function of the method of hypothesis; 4. Dialectical progression in the discussion of suicide; 5. The dialectical function of the cyclical arguments; 6. The recollection argument's introduction of the Forms hypothesis; 7. The turn to the nature of soul in the affinity argument; 8. Soul as substance in Socrates' response to Simmias; 9. Toward the nature of soul in the final argument; 10. Justified belief on the way to first principles; 11. Mythologia and the Philosophic Life.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. The inconclusive character of the Phaedo's arguments; 3. The dialectical function of the method of hypothesis; 4. Dialectical progression in the discussion of suicide; 5. The dialectical function of the cyclical arguments; 6. The recollection argument's introduction of the Forms hypothesis; 7. The turn to the nature of soul in the affinity argument; 8. Soul as substance in Socrates' response to Simmias; 9. Toward the nature of soul in the final argument; 10. Justified belief on the way to first principles; 11. Mythologia and the Philosophic Life.