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Fine, Gail.

The possibility of inquiry : Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus Gail Fine. - First edition - Oxford Oxford University Press 2014 - xiv, 399 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plato's Meno. The origins of the problem ; Meno's questions and Socrates' dilemma ; Socrates' three-stage reply : the first and second stages ; The third stage : the second statement of the theory of recollection -- Aristotle and after. Aristotelian inquiry ; Epicurean inquiry ; Stoic inquiry ; Plutarch's account ; Skeptical inquiry 1 : Sextus and the Stoics ; Skeptical inquiry 2 : Sextus and the Epicureans.

Examines Meno's paradox, which challenges the possibility of inquiry, and compares replies from Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, in a consideration of the nature of knowledge and justification, the difference between knowledge and belief, varieties in innatism, concepts and meaning, and the scope and limits of experience.

ISBN: 9780199577392 0199577390

LCCN: 2014932178

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB401282 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016596057 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Plato. Meno.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
Philosophy, Ancient.

LC Class. No.: B187.K7 / F56 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 180.9495 / F4934