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    Socrates in the Meno concedes that right opinion sufficie... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Right opinion is less valuable than knowledge even when unreliable causal influences can be ruled out.

    Socrates in the Meno concedes that right opinion sufficiently guides action, undermining the premise that conviction-strength maps onto epistemic or practical worth.

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    • 1.Right opinion produces correct action without requiring knowledge, showing conviction-strength is irrelevant to practical success.
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    • 2.Socrates distinguishes knowledge from right opinion precisely to show weak conviction can guide action reliably.
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    • 3.If epistemic worth required strong conviction, virtuous action would depend on psychological intensity, not truth or correctness.
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    • 1.Socrates uses right opinion as temporary guidance only until knowledge is achieved, not as equally valid for wisdom or virtue.
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    • 2.The Meno's point is that right opinion needs tethering by knowledge; Socrates doesn't claim conviction-strength is irrelevant to worth.
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    • 3.Practical guidance and epistemic worth are distinct categories; right opinion succeeding at one doesn't undermine the other's importance.
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