ABSTRACT
The Meno, Theaetetus, and the Sophist as well as the Sophistic School and Parmenides have been shown to be philosophically interwoven into a single puzzle on falsehood. The topic of falsehood is genuinely important to Plato in order to resist the relativism of sophistic speech. Socrates had been tried, convicted and executed because he was unable to defend the elenchus from the grievances of those who had suffered the ill-effects of its exercise. With the new appreciation of language Plato is able to explain a lot more than just the problem of falsehood. In the Meno the Meno Paradox is developed as a problem for knowledge which is in turn picked up as a general problem for thought in the Theaetetus and Sophist afterwards. The Meno Paradox was incited as a result of Socrates’ insistence that instances of what can be named by the inquiring topic, e.g. virtue, can not produce knowledge.
