Meno debated whether virtue is achieved through teaching, or instead by practice, or rather obtained by one's birth (58). ... To support his argument, Socrates asks one of Meno's slaves who had never been taught geometry. ... Socrates arrives at the conclusion that knowledge is recollection by asking the slave, who was never taught geometry, numerous questions regarding geometrical problems. ...

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During the Hellenistic Period, science were the mathematicians, Alexandrian Euclid created the study of geometry. ... Herophilus, was a practicing physician. ... In geometry, he figured out that the sum of the sides of the triangle was equal was related to the angels of the triangles. ...

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