Disagreed with the Sophists' (ca. 470_399 B.C.) contention that there is no discernible truth beyond individual opinion. Socrates believed that by examining a number of individual manifestations of a concept,
the general concept itself could be defined clearly and precisely. These general definitions are stable and knowable and, when known, generate moral behavior.
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