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[82e] of that figure be. This one is two feet long: what will be the side of the other, which is double in size?

Boy
Clearly, Socrates, double.

Socrates
Do you observe, Meno, that I am not teaching the boy anything, but merely asking him each time? And now he supposes that he knows about the line required to make a figure of eight square feet; or do you not think he does?

Meno
I do.

Socrates
Well, does he know?

Meno
Certainly not.

Socrates
He just supposes it, from the double size required?

Meno
Yes.

Socrates
Now watch his progress in recollecting, by the proper use of memory. Tell me, boy,


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