Today, scholars are more often disposed to recognize that Plato's dialogues have their own coherence, and must be addressed in their own terms. Worst of all, great stretches of his dialogues were left out of the discussion, and the dialogue form itself was treated as little more than a tic. More often, he failed to live up to modern standards of argumentation. Here and there Plato received good marks, or was applauded for a good try. Scholars supplied missing premises, added the necessary intermediate steps, and evaluated the validity of the inferences. In the heyday of analytic philosophy, studies of Plato tended to concentrate above all on those passages in the dialogues that resembled, or might be made to resemble, rigorous arguments.
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