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Doxa

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Greek word meaning common belief or popular opinion

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But why do you not give me another word? HERMOGENES: What do you think of doxa (opinion), and that class of words? SOCRATES: Doxa is either derived from dioxis (pursuit), and expresses the march of the soul in the pursuit of knowledge, or from the shooting of a bow (toxon); the latter is more likely, and is confirmed by oiesis (thinking), which is only oisis (moving), and implies the movement of the soul to the…
Plato, Cratylus
States what Doxa is; names Doxa several times.
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Men had only recently arrived at the notion of opinion; they could not at once define the true and pass beyond into the false. The very word doxa was full of ambiguity, being sometimes, as in the Eleatic philosophy, applied to the sensible world, and again used in the more ordinary sense of opinion. There is no connexion between sensible appearance and probability, and yet both of them met in the word doxa, and…
Plato, Theaetetus
States what Doxa is; the author is tied to Doxa in the knowledge graph.
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Gloria uero quam fallax saepe, quam turpis est! Vnde non iniuria tragicus exclamat: [Greek: O doxa doxa murioisi dae broton ouden gegosi bioton onkosas megan.] Plures enim magnum saepe nomen falsis uulgi opinionibus abstulerunt; quo quid turpius excogitari potest? Nam qui falso praedicantur, suis ipsi necesse est laudibus erubescant.
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Names Doxa twice.
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