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The Meno's Paradox

The Meno's Paradox

Socrates answers by rephrasing Meno's question then challenges Meno with a fundamental question: if one does not know what virtue is, how can one search for it? which asserts that one cannot search for what one knows because one already possesses that knowledge, nor can one search for what one does not know because one does not know what to look for.

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