Edmund Gettier credited this author with the "justified true belief" theory of knowledge. In one of this thinker's writings, the lengths of a sides of a square are related to the square's area by a slave, showing that all knowledge is recollection. He also had a character relate how humans once had two heads, before the gods split them apart to make them long for their other half. This author of M
Edmund Gettier credited this author with the "justified true belief" theory of knowledge. In one of this thinker's writings, the lengths of a sides of a square are related to the square's area by a slave, showing that all knowledge is recollection. He also had a character relate how humans once had two heads, before the gods split them apart to make them long for their other half. This author of Meno wrote a multi-person drunken discourse on the nature of love, and advanced his theory of Forms with the allegory of the cave in a discussion of the ideal society. For 10 points, name this Greek author whose philosophical dialogues, including the Symposium and Republic, feature his master Socrates.
Edmund Gettier credited this author with the "justified true belief" theory of knowledge.
Plato [or Platon; or Aristocles]