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[foreign text]. Another little point is that the meaning of the word dialectical is developed. Were Socrates answering [foreign text] he would answer in one may but if one were merely in friendly conversation as you and I now are, [foreign text] then it would be proper to reply more gently and conversationally [foreign text]. For it is more conversational (dialectical) not merely to speak the truth bbut such things as the questioner would acknowledge to be so. Meno quoting "the poet" says that virtue is desiring and being able to provide [foreign language] thus making moral beauty a good. A little further on Meno turns upon Socrates with a rather pertinent questions of logic. Socrates proposes to inquire what virtue is. But asks Meno (80D) By what mode will you investigate, Socrates, that of which you absolutely know what it is?