PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Cebes, Psychopathy, Immanuel Kant
10 Dec 2012
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Socrates begins this argument with an analogy: when we see a lyre or an article of clothing we are sometimes reminded of the person who played the lyre or wore the article. In the same way, socrates will say that true knowledge is like remembering. No two things will ever be perfectly equal in the sensible world and yet we do have this idea of equality in our minds. We saw the perfect form of equality when our soul was detached from our body and these two sticks reminds us of this. This argument is an abductive argument: it is an example of inference to the best explanation. All we have to do is criticize an abductive argument, is to find a better (following the rule of conservatism) or simpler (ockham s razor) explanation and we can point out that the argument is improbable.
