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special while it is universal.
Its problem may be traced back to the demand of Socrates for conceptual knowledge or what Aristotle termed [?] [?].
It arose ehrn the "ideal of knowledes awoke"*

* Two references which Erdmann gives serve to remind us that Socrates was distinguished for his continual seeking for definitionism general terms.
Aristotle (Metaph . III.iv) says that he was the first to investigate the universal definitions of the virtues.
Aristotle repeats this in several other places and Xenophon expresses the same idea in untechnical language in the fourth book of the Memorabilia.
I regret that not having that work at hand I can only speak from memory.
There would not be a word of verisimilitude in Plato's dislogues if it were not so.

The last sentence is suggested as Erdmann's reference shows by Schleiermachier's remark that 'the awakening og the ideal of knowledge and its first utterances must have formed the substance of the philosophy of Socrates.'