Dialogue

 1  Meno|        understand the nature of a general definition, he answers in
 2  Meno|          the mind could rise to a general notion of virtue as distinct
 3  Meno|    ignorant of the very nature of general terms. He can only produce
 4  Meno| sophistical incapacity to grasp a general notion.~Anytus is the type
 5  Meno|         sort of progress from the general notions of Socrates, who
 6  Meno|         The difficulty in framing general notions which has appeared
 7  Meno|          is Socrates; but to the ‘general definitions’ of Socrates
 8  Meno|      represented as the genera or general ideas under which individuals
 9  Meno|        old string, and returns to general notions:—these he acknowledges
10  Meno|        are in their substance and general meaning the same, although
11  Meno|   Republic)—that he proceeds from general ideas, that many elements
12  Meno|          Presocratics) with a few general notions, Descartes first
13  Meno|        way and say of abstract or general ideas, that the greater
14  Meno|       Very true.~SOCRATES: And in general, all that the soul attempts