Part 1 of Essay
Throughout the Meno, Euthyphro, and Symposium Socrates is questioning his interlocutor in an attempt to find the definition of some term. His criterion for a good definition or logos is for the definition to apply to all occasions of the subject and nothing else. Also, the logos must not mention the subject being defined ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... it is already pious. The main subject of the Meno is the search for a definition of virtue. However, Meno and Socrates are unable to find one because Meno first attempts to give some characteristics of virtue, but is unable to do so because he cannot list all the aspects that are a part of virtue. Also, in the Meno Socrates attempts to define shape as that which "Always follows color."(Meno, 75c) Intuitively this account of shape does not sound right, and it is shown to be false when the definition of lo ....