Meno’s paradox raises serious challenges against most fundamental epistemological quest regarding the possibility of inquiry and discovery. In his response, Socrates proposes the theory of anamnesis and his ingenious distinction between doxa and episteme. But, he fails in his attempt to solve the paradox and some recent responses have also not succeeded in settling it, satisfactorily. We shall argue that epistemological issues approached in a Darwinian spirit offer a therapeutic resolution without rejecting the basic tenets of Plato’s epistemology. Drawing from Popper’s evolutionary theory of knowledge, Darwinism is regarded as a metaphysical research program, rather than using it to collapse Plato’s metaphysics into biology.

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波普尔对梅诺悖论的进化疗法

梅诺悖论对最基本的认识论探索提出了严峻的挑战，涉及探究和发现的可能性。苏格拉底在回应中提出了回忆的理论，以及他对doxa和episteme的巧妙区分。但是，他未能解决这一悖论，最近的一些回应也未能令人满意地解决它。我们将争辩说，以达尔文主义精神解决的认识论问题提供了治疗解决方案，而没有否定柏拉图认识论的基本宗旨。借鉴波普尔的知识进化论，达尔文主义被视为一种形而上的研究程序，而不是用它来将柏拉图的形而上学转变为生物学。