Download or read book Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato written by H. Baltussen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Theophrastus' much neglected "De sensibus" offers a new interpretation of the treatment of the Presocratic and Platonic views on sense perception, and provides new insight into Theophrastus' exegetical procedure by using Peripatetic dialectic as a heuristic tool.