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Philosophies of Parquetry – Part One – Plato and Socrates
The Socratic Method, as defined my Merriam Webster, is “the method of inquiry and instruction employed by Socrates especially as represented in the dialogues of Plato and consisting of a series of questionings the object of which is to elicit a clear and consistent expression of something supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings.” This philosophy, which dates back almost 2400 years, remains an influential tactic used in many areas of learning in the modern day. In more recent years, Edmund Gettier created the Gettier Problem, which identifies descriptive knowledge as a problem which is gained through three conditions – justification, truth, and belief. Gettier opined that if we have full awareness of these three areas with respect to a given topic, we have “True Belief Knowledge” of the topic. His theory goes on to claim that a person can gain information in two aspects of a given topic, but without all three, they fail to meet the necessary and sufficient conditions for true knowledge.