Reality of Knowledge
The Reality of Knowledge Meno began an argument with Socrates by questioning the nature of knowledge and inquiry. He wondered how knowledge could be obtained even if a person did not know anything about the subject. ... He replied that, although we may not know what the nature of something is, it is not completely outside of our sphere of knowledge to understand it. He came up with the fact that all knowledge is gained through recollection (i. ... According to Socrates, the human soul is immortal and has seen and learned all things before a person was born, therefore, it is able to “recollect” it previous knowledge. ... Socrates demonstrated with the slave, that although the slave had no previous knowledge whatsoever on geometry, by the process of inquiry, the slave was able to come to the correct answer.