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Understanding Proofs: Meno, 85d9–86c2, Continued

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

G. E. M. Anscombe
G. E. M. Anscombe
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New Hall, Cambridge
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Purely by questioning Socrates has elicited from an uninstructed slave the conclusion that the square on the diagonal of a square is twice the original square in area. Then comes a part of the dialogue which I translate:

Socrates. This knowledge, then, that he has now, he either got some time, or always had?

Meno. Yes.

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Philosophy , Volume 54 , Issue 208 , April 1979 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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