Some accredit Plato with the invention of philosophy, while A. ... This contrasts with Plato's initial postulation of a Demiurge. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... "6 This has become known as 'Meno's Paradox'. Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ...

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Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ... Parmenides started rationalism and Plato continued with his theme. ... Plato also agrees with Heraclitus, "about the world revealed to us through our senses (122)." ...

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