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Quotation from Meno by Plato
“You argue that a man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire”
Meno, 80e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Socrates restates Meno's challenge, the paradox of inquiry, before answering it with the doctrine of recollection.
Citation: "You argue that a man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire" — Plato, Meno, 80e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q4)
