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Meno is visiting Athens from Thessaly with a large entourage of slaves attending him. Young, good-looking and well-born, he is a student of Gorgias, a prominent sophist whose views on virtue clearly influence that of Meno's. Early in the dialogue, Meno claims that he has held forth many times on the subject of virtue, and in front of large ...
Meno's paradox: (Learner's paradox) A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know. Mere addition paradox: (Parfit's paradox) Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population? Moore's paradox: "It's raining, but I don't believe that it is."
Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding.
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Meno (/ˈmiːnoʊ/; Greek: Mένων, Menōn; c. 423 – c. 400 BC), son of Alexidemus, was an ancient Thessalian political figure, probably from Pharsalus. [1]He is famous both for the eponymous dialogue written by Plato and for his role as one of the generals leading different contingents of Greek mercenaries in Xenophon's Anabasis.
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1 Early life. 2 Academic career. 3 Selected works. Toggle Selected works subsection. 3.1 Books. ... Meno's Paradox Again' (2009), in Proceedings of the Aristotelian ...