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Socratic examination tests an answer against a person’s other commitments and can reveal inconsistency. What does that establish before a better answer has been found?
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 20
An examined life in the city
Plato’s Socrates questions Euthyphro’s confident account of piety. How can exposing inconsistent beliefs matter when the definition, and the portrait of the historical Socrates, remain unsettled?