PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eristic, A Priori And A Posteriori
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P1: if they seem to it"s because they"re making a mistake. P2: bad things cause harm and hurt you. C1: so if you know something is bad, you won"t want it. C2: so no one knowing desires bad things. What"s good for me may be bad for you. But we also now know that plato views relativity (like change) as a mark of the lower levels of reality: even if knowledge is necessary, it"s not sufficient. You also have to want something (but that"s always the good) Meno is stunned: a sign of progress! There"s no point in discovering x if you know x. And you can"t recognize x if you don"t know x. So all inquiry is either pointless or impossible. You can identify x by a non-essential quality. But not if it"s an abstract concept like virtue! The argument just goes on to assume that we never learn anything but it doesn"t matter,
