Le debolezza strutturale del linguaggio nella Settima lettera di Platone

The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, I am to provide an overview of Plato\u2019s Seventh letter epistemological passage usually called \u201cphilosophical excursus\u201d. Secondly, I also analyse the main reason of human inability to perfectly know the highest things which Plato identifies in the text: the \u201cweakness of logoi\u201d. The argument is that it is impossible for human beings to go beyond name, discourse, image, and science (i.e. a set constituted by right opinion, science in strict sense and intellection). Therefore, we cannot grasp the \u201cessence\u201d of the thing itself without its \u201cqualities\u201d. In the last part of the paper, I reject both the \u201cmystic\u201d interpretation (according to which we have a non-logical access to the truth) and the \u201cnoetic\u201d interpretation (according to which we have a rational but non-propositional access to the truth)