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Quotation from Meno by Plato
“And this is why knowledge is more honourable and excellent than true opinion, because fastened by a chain.”
Meno, 98a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Socrates explains, with the image of Daedalus's walking statues, that knowledge is true opinion tied down by reasoning about the cause.
Citation: "And this is why knowledge is more honourable and excellent than true opinion, because fastened by a chain." — Plato, Meno, 98a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q7)
