lukeprog comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 02 September 2012 06:49:08PM 0 points [-]

What's that quote, from an Ancient Greek I think, about how the first question in argument should be "What do you mean by that?" and the second question should be "And how do you know that?"

Comment author: siodine 02 September 2012 07:01:05PM 0 points [-]

Sounds like Socrates.

Comment author: lukeprog 02 September 2012 11:23:04PM 0 points [-]

I thought there was some pithy quote from him (well, Plato) about it, but I can't find the pithy quote version of the idea.