In Meno, Socrates and Meno are discussing the knowledge of virtue. Here Mono presents the famous paradox about inquiry. To acquire the knowledge of something, one has to start either knowing or not knowing that thing. If he knows the thing, inquiry is unnecessary. If he does not know the thing, inquiry is impossible, since he does not know what qualities it possesses and such. So in either case one can not inquire on knowledge, which implies that there is no point of seeking for truth or answers. In response to this Socrates comes up with the theory that nothing is taught, but merely recalled from past memories. He goes on to prove this by an example of making a slave boy acquire the knowledge of how to double a square, where he claims th
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