First of all, Meno tried many times to provide Socrates with a true definition of virtue. However, after many attempts and efforts without having an accurate meaning to virtue, he was requested to describe it for the fourth time. Objects: if neither of them has any idea of what virtue is how can they make any progress towards a discovery? After Socrates presented his theory to meet his protestation, he started to assist his theory with the analysis. Nevertheless, there are three stages in the process of remembrance: 1- The slave boy did understand that what he formerly supposed to be right is in fact wrong. Anyhow, getting a false response from the boy, Socrates says to Meno (82e12-13): ‘now watch how he recollects things in order- the proper way to recollect’. 2- …show more content…
He does not yet have knowledge(85d3-85b7): So someone who does not know about something, whatever it may be that he doesn't know, has in himself true opinions on a subject without having knowledge…. and at the moment these opinions have just been stirred up in him as if he were in a dream. 3- It is only at the final phase of recollection that knowledge is learned, As Socrates goes on to say in the passage immediately following the quotation. This stage is mentioned later in the dialogue, at 98a4, when Socrates describes the difference between knowledge and true opinion. When we have tied down an opinion with 'explanatory reasoning' we convert it into knowledge. Furthermore, the investigation of the slave boy displays recollection opening only after contact with a certain type of impetus. However, there is no proof to show that he would have started to recollect had he never met Socrates. Although, recollection is only appealed to describe the slave boy’s responsiveness that what he originally thought was