Plato's response was to continue to teach the methods of Socrates in order to clear his mentor's name as a corruptor and in order to defy authority- in a sense to be true to himself. ... Plato's teaching method was the exploration of the question itself, and coming to a satisfactory answer was not the intent of the discussion. ...

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