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Meno’s Paradox and The Theory
Title: Meno’s Paradox and The Theory
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1286 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Meno’s Paradox and The Theory
Meno’s Paradox and The Theory of Recollection
Meno’s paradox is an argument in the form of a question. As it is written Meno asks, “How will you look for something when you don’t know what it is.. or even if you come right up on it, how will you know that what you have found is the thing that you didn’t know?” Socrates states it more simply, “A man cannot try
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lieu of the notion that there is no point in looking for what one does not know, because what one does not know one can never discover. It is possible to learn because one is not discovering knowledge that one does not know, rather one is uncovering such knowledge, which can also be stated as remembering latent knowledge that one has forgotten. Therefore one is learning knowledge that one was not aware that one had.
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