"As a consequence, according to Socrates, mere true beliefs ‘are not of much value’,..."

“As a consequence, according to Socrates, mere true beliefs ‘are not of much value’, presumably because their 'untethered’ nature makes them inherently unreliable. By contrast, he declares, genuine knowledge would be analogous to such a statue that had somehow been 'fastened’, and would therefore 'stay put’ and have much greater value. [And so Socrates says]: 'Mere true beliefs are not worth much until one fastens them with accounts of the reason why’ (Meno 98a).”

- Michael Ferejohn on Plato’s Meno

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