THE MENO AND THE SECOND PROBLEM OF GEOMETRY AT 86e

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2016-01-01

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Bağçe, Samet

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The aim of this paper is two-fold: firstly, to argue for the claim that the two problems of geometry presented in the Meno seem to be connected to each other, and secondly, to offer, in connection with the first claim, a conjecture concerning the nature of the second problem of geometry brought up in the dialogue at 86e. This paper offers, in particular, a historical reconstruction of how we should understand this problem of construction in geometry.

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PHILOSOPHIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

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S. Bağçe, “THE MENO AND THE SECOND PROBLEM OF GEOMETRY AT 86e,” PHILOSOPHIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, pp. 45–68, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53902.