1st Edition

False Belief and the Meno Paradox

By Elly Pirocacos Copyright 1998
230 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1998, the philosophical concern of this book is epistemological in kind. It involves understanding the Socratic elentic method and how its structure introduces an important epistemological problem which is first raised in the "Meno" dialogue as a paradox. This paradox, named the Meno paradox, raises the problem of falsehood. Specifically the impossibility of falsehood. The... Read more
  1. The Meno 2. The Theaetetus and False Belief 3. False belief in the Theaetetus 4. False Belief in the Sophist 5. Resolving Falsehood.

Biography

Elly Pirocacos is adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at the American College of Greece.