focused on true knowledge. This method, known as the Socratic method is

unconventional in that it is not a means of argument through persuasion or

opinion, it is, rather, a means of argument through question and challenge.

The method is a consideration of knowledge as being inherent to the human

soul rather than a study of how things are. In this essay I will examine how

this unique method relates and operates with the unique style of text in

Socrates' method of teaching by asking questions, searched for

definitions. In his method of argument, he would challenge anyone with a

pretense to knowledge. Socrates argued his theories of how true knowledge

is attained through joining in a discussion with another person who thought

he knew what virtue or knowledge was. Under this questioning, it became

clear that neither Socrates nor the other person knew the meaning of such

terms. This is shown in Socrates' conversation with Meno in Plato's Meno.

M: I do not [know what virtue is]; but, Socrates, do you

of other propositions that, when put together, prove the difference of the

others rather than presenting Socrates' concrete theory or definition of

persuasive or definitive point. He is never established as a clear winner. As

stimulate the thinking of others to aid him in his own hypothesis of true

know, and he did not think himself at a loss, but now he does

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