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someone wiser than himself among politicians, poets, and craftsmen. It appeared that politicians claimed wisdom without knowledge; poets could touch people with their words, but did not know their meaning; and craftsmen could claim knowledge only in specific and narrow fields. The interpretation of the Oracle's answer might be Socrates' awareness of his own ignorance.
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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know
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21d). The paraphrased saying, though widely attributed to Plato's Socrates in both ancient and modern times, actually occurs nowhere in Plato's works in precisely the form "I know I know nothing." Two prominent Plato scholars have recently argued that the claim should not be attributed to Plato's
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Regardless, the context in which this passage occurs is the same, independently of any specific translation. That is, Socrates having gone to a "wise" man, and having discussed with him, withdraws and thinks the above to himself. Socrates, since he denied any kind of knowledge, then tried to find
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Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know. .
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I know virtually nothing, except a certain small subject – love (τῶν ἐρωτικῶν), although on this subject, I'm thought to be amazing (δεινός), better than anyone else, past or present.
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Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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It is also a curiosity that there is more than one passage in the narratives in which Socrates claims to have knowledge on some topic, for instance on love:
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Here, Socrates aims at the change of Meno's opinion, who was a firm believer in his own opinion and whose claim to knowledge Socrates had disproved.
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So now I do not know what virtue is; perhaps you knew before you contacted me, but now you are certainly like one who does not know. (
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29d, where Socrates indicates that he is so confident in his claim to knowledge at 29b-c that he is willing to die for it.
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knew anything, and that he was only wiser than others because he was the only person who recognized his own ignorance.
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vol. 35 (2008), p. 51). C. C. W. Taylor has argued that the "paradoxical formulation is a clear misreading of Plato" (
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This is technically a shorter paraphrasing of Socrates' statement, "I neither know nor think I know" (in Plato,
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Fine argues that "it is better not to attribute it to him" ("Does Socrates Claim to Know He Knows Nothing?",
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written hundreds of years after Plato, where he lists, among the things that Socrates used to say: "
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How could I vote 'No,' when the only thing I say I understand is the art of love? (τὰ ἐρωτικά)
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Evidence that Socrates does not actually claim to know nothing can be found at
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Gail Fine, "Does Socrates Claim to Know that He Knows Nothing?",
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On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
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All of a Sudden: The Role of Ἐξαίφνης in Plato's Dialogues
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Again, closer to the quote, there is a passage in Plato's
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Socrates also deals with this phrase in Plato's dialogue
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29b-c, where he claims twice to know something. See also
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This saying is also connected or conflated with the
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Index

a series
Socrates

I know that I know nothing
The unexamined life is not worth living
Gadfly
Trial of Socrates
Socratic dialogue
Socratic fallacy
Socratic intellectualism
Socratic irony
Socratic method
Socratic paradox
Socratic problem
Socratic questioning
Pupils
Plato
Xenophon
Aeschines
Antisthenes
Aristippus
Academic skepticism
Aristotelianism
Bibliography
Cultural depictions
Cynicism
Cyrenaics
Megarians
Platonism
Stoicism

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