... structure our minds, beliefs, and actions. "In his dialogue entitled the Meno, Plato illustrates how Socrates is able to show that even a young uneducated slave boy knows some truths of geometry not because somebody taught him that subject but because be naturally knows the relationship of various ideas to each other." (Stumpf 260) This quote illustrates how Socrates thought that the ... uneducated boy knew geometry. He recollected it from his soul. In the Meno, Socrates states that the boy is "recovering by oneself knowledge within oneself." (Plato 85D) Knowledge in the Meno is perceiv...

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... . Plato's republic assigned individuals to careers by way of education. The first of the citizens who failed in the education were assigned to businessmen and traders. Those remaining would learn geometry and mathematics. The batch of failures in this group would comprise the military. The final, few elite would learn what he considered the most important: philosophy. They would also learn ... ...

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... in his form. Each could be reformulated into a basic case and the conclusion came from within the question. Of the six logic works, only one, the Prior Analytics, expounds formal geometry, as Aristotle himself understood the subject. Only one of six works on logic, deal with formal logic as Aristotle understood the subject. The five others deal with types of reasoning ... ...

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... "studying the path of the moon", investigate "phenomena underground" and examine "the lower reaches of hell" (page 120, Penguin edition, The Clouds, Aristophanes). The idea that Socrates investigates astronomy, cosmology, geometry and rhetoric seem believable enough, but other suggestions, such as the sophists believing that too much air is bad for the brain, seems to merely be an invention for the ... ...

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... , clerks, factory workers & farmers. Those who pass this elimination test will receive 10 more year of education & training in body & mind. Emphasis is laid on mathematics, including arithmetic, plane & solid geometry, astronomy & dialectics. At the age of 30 they will face another elimination test which"ll be far more severe. Those who fail this will become the auxiliaries & executive aides & military ... ...

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