Abstract

FARIETA, Alejandro. KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERY AND REMINISCENCE IN PLATO'S MENO. Univ. philos. [online]. 2013, vol.30, n.60, pp.205-234. ISSN 0120-5323.

This work articulates two thesis: one Socratic and one Platonic; and displays how the first one is heir of the second. The Socratic one is called the principle of priority ofdefinition ; the Platonic one is the Recollection theory. The articulation between both theses is possible due to the Meno 's paradox, which makes a criticism on the first thesis, but it is solved with the second one. The consequence of this articulation is a new interpretation of the Recollection theory, as a theory of knowledge acquisition that depends, mainly, on a distinction between knowledge and true opinion. To conclude, a new interpretation of the knowledge/true opinion distinction is displayed -not in the traditional fashion, evaluating the propositions one by one, and in an atomic way-, but as big blocks or chains of propositions shaping knowledge through explanatory reasoning (aitías logismós).

Keywords : Plato; definition; recollection; knowledge; Meno's paradox.

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