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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (September 2022)pp. 16–32PDF of The Losing Argument: Jocasta’s Empirical Epistemology and the Limits of Skepticism in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

   The Losing Argument: Jocasta’s Empirical Epistemology and the Limits of Skepticism in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

   Obiorah Ekwueme and John Uche Ngonadi

   Jocasta's criticism of prophesy in the play is sometimes interpreted as either impiety or as the play's central argument that divine knowledge is superior to human reason. Both … support. Instead of using the outdated vocabulary of empiricism, this article objectively reconstructs Jocasta's argument in those contemporary words and demonstrates how this alters the play's intended meaning