Dialogue

 1  Meno|      Empedocles. Socrates is of opinion that the more abstract or
 2  Meno|     This is the nature of right opinion. For virtue may be under
 3  Meno|     under the guidance of right opinion as well as of knowledge;
 4  Meno|         of knowledge; and right opinion is for practical purposes
 5  Meno|  education,’ there may be right opinion, which is a sort of guessing
 6  Meno|         the lower form of right opinion, as well as the higher one
 7  Meno|        the existence of popular opinion as a fact, and the Sophists
 8  Meno|         of knowledge, but right opinion is our actual guide. There
 9  Meno|  admitted to be possible. Right opinion is again introduced in the
10  Meno|         the conception of false opinion is given up as hopeless.
11  Meno|         the distinction between opinion and knowledge is more fully
12  Meno|        you have far too good an opinion of me, if you think that
13  Meno|        you would be of the same opinion, if you would only stay
14  Meno|          SOCRATES: And, in your opinion, do those who think that
15  Meno|        instead of eliciting his opinion. Tell me, boy, is not this
16  Meno|      the second place, he is of opinion that he is one of them himself.
17  Meno|        a person who had a right opinion about the way, but had never
18  Meno| SOCRATES: And while he has true opinion about that which the other
19  Meno|    Exactly.~SOCRATES: Then true opinion is as good a guide to correct
20  Meno|     whereas there is also right opinion.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Then
21  Meno|      True.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion is not less useful than
22  Meno|     right; but he who has right opinion will sometimes be right,
23  Meno|       he be wrong who has right opinion, so long as he has right
24  Meno|         so long as he has right opinion?~MENO: I admit the cogency
25  Meno|    should be preferred to right opinion—or why they should ever
26  Meno|         and excellent than true opinion, because fastened by a chain.~
27  Meno|     knowledge differs from true opinion is no matter of conjecture
28  Meno|       right in saying that true opinion leading the way perfects
29  Meno|     right.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion is not a whit inferior to
30  Meno|        is the man who has right opinion inferior to him who has
31  Meno|         because they have right opinion, and that neither knowledge
32  Meno|     neither knowledge nor right opinion is given to man by nature
33  Meno|   guides are knowledge and true opinion—these are the guides of
34  Meno|      the guides of man are true opinion and knowledge.~MENO: I think
35  Meno|     have guided states by right opinion, which is in politics what