Hippias Minor
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Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates debates the nature of lying and whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hippias Minor canonical | 6 |
| Plato's dialogue Hippias Minor | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippias Minor Context triple: [Hippias Major, relatedWork, Hippias Minor]
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A.
Hippias Major
Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
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B.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
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C.
Plato's Charmides
Plato's "Charmides" is a Socratic dialogue that explores the nature of temperance (sophrosyne) through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides, with characters like Critobulus appearing in the discussion.
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D.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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E.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippias Minor Target entity description: Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates debates the nature of lying and whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.
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A.
Hippias Major
Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
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B.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
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C.
Plato's Charmides
Plato's "Charmides" is a Socratic dialogue that explores the nature of temperance (sophrosyne) through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides, with characters like Critobulus appearing in the discussion.
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D.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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E.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic dialogue
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Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
| argumentativeMethod | elenchus ⓘ |
| authenticityStatus | disputed by some scholars ⓘ |
| author | Plato ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | included in many editions of Plato's works ⓘ |
| centralDebate |
the nature of lying
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the relation between knowledge and wrongdoing ⓘ |
| corpus | Platonic corpus ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | question-and-answer ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Eudicus
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Hippias of Elis ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
distinction between voluntary and involuntary actions
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ethical evaluation of lying ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole |
Hippias as interlocutor
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Socrates as principal questioner ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
interpretations of Socratic ethics
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later discussions of lying in philosophy ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryReference |
Homer's Iliad
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Homer's Odyssey ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Socrates ⓘ |
| period |
Classical Greece
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surface form:
Classical period of ancient Greece
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| philosophicalDiscipline |
ethics
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moral psychology ⓘ |
| philosophicalPositionExplored | the idea that the knowledgeable wrongdoer may be superior to the ignorant wrongdoer ⓘ |
| philosophicalQuestion | whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
involuntary wrongdoing
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lying ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ truthfulness ⓘ voluntary wrongdoing ⓘ |
| questionedConcept |
intention in action
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knowledge ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Gorgias
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Hippias Major ⓘ Protagoras ⓘ |
| setting |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| styleCharacteristic | Socratic irony ⓘ |
| textualForm | dialogue in prose ⓘ |
| tradition | ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| traditionalAttribution | Plato ⓘ |
| workInvolves | comparison of Achilles and Odysseus ⓘ |
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Subject: Hippias Minor Description of subject: Hippias Minor is a Socratic dialogue traditionally attributed to Plato, in which Socrates debates the nature of lying and whether the voluntary wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.
Referenced by (7)
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this entity surface form:
Plato's dialogue Hippias Minor