Philosopher, The, distinguished from the Dialectician, [354], [584]; also from the Sophist, [584].
Philosophy, First, usual name for Science of Ens quatenus Ens, [59], [422], [584]; see [Ontology].
Phokion, at the head of the Athenian administration under Alexander, [12]; ineffectually opposed anti-Macedonian sentiment after Alexander’s death, [12].
Physica, relation of the, to the Metaphysica, [54], [422].
Physics, theoretical science, subject of, [423], [593], [630].
Pindar, subject of his Odes, [13].
Place, in Dialectic, [283]; none outside of the Heaven, [636].
Planets, number of the spheres of, [626]; do not twinkle, why, [645]; see [Stars].
Plato, much absent from Athens, between 367-60 B.C., [4]; died, 347 B.C., [4]; corresponded with Dionysius, [7]; Aristotle charged with ingratitude to, [20]; attacked with Aristotle by Kephisodorus, [24]; ancients nearly unanimous as to the list of his works, [27], [42]; his exposure of equivocal phraseology, [58]; fascinated by particular numbers, [74]; on Relativity, [84]; his theory of Proposition and Negation, [135], [427]; called for, but did not supply, definitions, [141]; his use of the word Syllogism, [143]; relied upon logical Division for science, [162]; opposed Science (Dialectic) to Opinion (Rhetoric), [208], [263]; explained learning from Reminiscence, [212]; his view of Noûs as infallible, [260]; character of his dialogues, [264]; recognized Didactic, but as absorbed into Dialectic, [264]; his use of the word Sophist, [376]; his psychology (in the Timæus), [446]-9, [451], [461]; first affirmed Realism, [552]; his Ontology and theory of Ideas, [553] seq., see [Ideas]; held Sophistic to be busied about Non-Ens, [593]; his scale of Essences, [595], [620]; his assumption of a self-movent as principium, [623]; held that the non-generable may be destroyed, [637], [639]; on the position of the Earth, [649]; in his Protagoras anticipated Epikurus, [654]; admitted an invincible erratic necessity in Nature, [657]; ethical purpose of, [662].
‘Plato and the other Companions of Sokrates,’ subject of the work, [1]; referred to, on subject of the Platonic Canon, [27].