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The Socratic Fallacy In The Early Dialogues, Priscilla Sakezles
The Socratic Fallacy In The Early Dialogues, Priscilla Sakezles
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In ‘Plato’s Euthyphro: An Analysis and Commentary’ (33), Peter Geach attributes two assumptions to Socrates which he calls the ‘Socratic Fallacy’ since its locus classicus is the early Socratic dialogues:
(A) if you know you are correctly predicating a given term ‘T,’ you must ‘know what it is to be T’ in the sense of being able to give a general criterion for a thing’s being T;
(B) it is no use to try and arrive at the meaning of‘T’ by giving examples of things that are T.
Geach claims that (B) follows from (A) because assuming (A) is true, …