The Choice Not Taken

The explicit arguments in Plato’s Phaedo, as pertain to metaphysical and theological models, are not good arguments. Many of their assumptions are extravagant, and their reasoning more universalizing than necessary. Much of the dialogue’s import occurs elsewhere (in the implicature of behavior and tonal choice). There are ways that Plato’s Dialogues do things with their form that are irreplicable in others, but I am interested in producing analysis of other philosophical arguments that deal with avoided arguments (or avoided actions).