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Philosophy

The Paradox of Analysis and the Value of Conceptual Clarification

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The paradox was first explicitly discussed by British philosopher G.E. Moore in the early 20th century, but its seeds can be traced back to Plato's Meno, where Meno asks Socrates to define virtue.

Why this is interesting

We all know what 'knowledge' is—until someone asks us to define it. Then the simple becomes strangely slippery.