The term Socratic paradox may be used to refer to several seemingly paradoxical claims made by the philosopher Socrates:
I know that I know nothing, a saying which is sometimes (somewhat inaccurately) attributed to Socrates
Socratic intellectualism, the view that nobody ever knowingly does wrong
Socratic fallacy, the view that using a word meaningfully requires being able to give an explicit definition of it
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The term Socraticparadox may be used to refer to several seemingly paradoxical claims made by the philosopher Socrates: I know that I know nothing, a...
also sometimes called the Socraticparadox, although this name is often instead used to refer to other seemingly paradoxical claims made by Socrates in...
virtue. The apparent, problematic consequences of this view are "Socraticparadoxes", such as the view that there is no weakness of will (that no one...
Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of...
as a paradox, and began using the Socratic method to answer his conundrum. Diogenes Laërtius, however, wrote that Protagoras invented the "Socratic" method...
Socratic dialogue (Ancient Greek: Σωκρατικὸς λόγος) is a genre of literary prose developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BC. The earliest...
In historical scholarship, the Socratic problem (also called Socratic question) concerns attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image...
liar paradox, Socraticparadox and the Burali-Forti paradox, all of which have self-reference in common with Epimenides. The Epimenides paradox is usually...
the Socratic approach to areas of philosophy including epistemology and ethics. The Platonic Socrates lends his name to the concept of the Socratic method...
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...
Socrates left no written works; however, his student and friend, Plato, wrote Socratic dialogues, featuring Socrates as the protagonist. As a teacher, competitor...
ignorant fool himself. His name also bears a strong association with the SocraticParadox, "I know that I know nothing," a statement that has come to frame him...
Omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes...
Meno (/ˈmiːnoʊ/; Greek: Μένων, Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue is taught, acquired...
Stoicism, wherein the consequences of that definition are called "Socraticparadoxes", such as "There is no weakness of will", because a person either...
Thessaloniki about the year 1270. The manuscript contains 35 letters, known as Socratic Letters, dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, and written by several authors...
ˈɛliə/; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics...
The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural...
Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian...
or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most...
The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and school of thought in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Greek colony of Elea (Ancient...
enables modern mathematics to surmount the paradox of extension framed by the pre-Socratic eleatic Zeno—a paradox comprising the question of how a finite...
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