Logic And Critical Thinking
Submitted by madnotes on May 12, 2008
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Logic And Critical Thinking
#1: How does Socrates use the Pythagorean Theorem to prove his theory of recollection in the Meno?
Plato draws for the slave-boy a square subdivided into four smaller squares. He then asks the boy about the square: are the lines equal? Can the square be of any size? He then asks that if the square's sides are two feet each, then what the area of the whole is. Before allowing the boy to continue, he gives an example: if the square were one foot, by two feet then the whole would be two feet ``taken at once.'' In answering the question of the area of the square, he is using what he has just learned (the relationship between one and two when taken as a whole, which equals two) to apply...
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