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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

   entire recognition hinges, and realizes the truth before Oedipus. The destruction of reason by prophecy is not her losing argument. It is Sophocles' demonstration that the only knowledge accessible