Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines Plato’s presentation of Meno’s Paradox in the Meno and Aristotle’s reference to it in Posterior Analytics 1.1. It also discusses a crucial claim closely connected to the puzzle: the Prior Knowledge Requirement for intellectual learning. Meno 80d4–e5 is examined, and the differences and similarities between Meno’s puzzle and Socrates’s dilemma are discussed. Some key terms and concepts in Aristotle’s theory of knowledge and learning are then defined, including ‘learning’ (mathēsis) and ‘knowledge’ (gnōsis). The connection between the general concept of knowledge (gnōsis) and its different species (including scientific knowledge (epistēmē)) is also examined. The chapter ends with an account of the instance of Meno’s Paradox in Posterior Analytics 1.1.
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