Meno’s Paradox

Meno’s Paradox

The “Meno’s Paradox” can be reformulated as follows:

1. If you KNOW what you’re looking for, inquiry is unnecessary.
2. If you DON'T know what you’re looking for, inquiry is impossible.
3. Therefore, inquiry is either unnecessary or impossible.

An implicit premise:
Either you know what you’re looking for or you don’t know what you’re looking for.

And this is a logical truth. Or is it? Only if “you know what you’re looking for” is used unambiguously in both disjuncts.

Platonically speaking, if you believe in "platonic love", then "platonic sex" is also platonically valid.

Reference:

THE DIALOGUES of Plato: TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH ANALYSES AND INTRODUCTIONS by B. JOWETT

Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias...

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http://www.archive.org/details/DIALOGUES-OF-PLATO-BJ-V2-3ED

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/menopar.htm