PHIL 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sophist, Lewis Carroll
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Socrates: we should search for things we do not know, so let"s figure out what virtue. If virtue is a kind of knowledge, then it can be taught (87c). If something can be taught, then there must be teachers and learners of it (89d) There are no teachers of virtue (89e-96c) A connected series of statements (cid:523)(cid:498)premises(cid:499)(cid:524) intended to establish a proposition (cid:523)(cid:498)conclusion(cid:499)(cid:524). If something can be taught, then there must be teachers and learners of it. Virtue cannot be taught (cid:498)valid(cid:499): )f, for the sake of argument, we assume the premises are true, then the. = (cid:498)lewis carroll(cid:499) conclusion has got to be true. A (cid:498)sound(cid:499) argument has a true conclusion, philosophers term for good is (cid:498)sound(cid:499). Meno thinks sophists are teachers of virtue, socrates doesn"t think so. Leading citizens of athens are teachers of virtue to meno, but socrates disagrees. A conclusion of a sound argument is true again.