The term Socratic paradox may be used to refer to several seemingly paradoxical claims made by the philosopher
Socrates
Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no te ...
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I know that I know nothing
"I know that I know nothing" is a saying derived from Plato's account of the Greek philosopher Socrates: ''"For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing..."'' (Plato, Apology 22d, translated by Harold North Fowler, 1966). Socrates himself ...
, a saying which is sometimes (somewhat inaccurately) attributed to Socrates
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Socratic intellectualism, the view that nobody ever knowingly does wrong
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Socratic fallacy, the view that using a word meaningfully requires being able to give an explicit definition of it
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