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# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# Socratic method
#logic
#rationality
The cat is in the tree.
What is a cat?
What is a tree?
sort of [[Dialectic]]
>The matters that are suitable for treatment by the **Socratic method** are those as to which we have already enough [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] to come to a right conclusion, but have failed, through confusion of thought or lack of analysis, to make the best [[Logic|logical]] use of what we know. ~[[Bertrand Russell]]
Socratic method is [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Exploration vs exploitation|exploitation]] of acquired [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|Knowledge]].
The problem with the **Socratic method** is that it tends to lead to infinite recursion. The [[Godel Theorem]] shows that you cannot know anything with 100% confidence.
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