The Possibility of Inquiry

Download or read book The Possibility of Inquiry written by Gail Fine and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.