According To Socrates Model Failure

Socrates is correct to think the model fails to the extent that having pieces of ignorance in a person’s soul makes one judge falsely when one grabs them is nonsense and therefore he is unable to provide a working explanation for false belief. It is his inability to grasp the concept that a person can have an object before the mind and at the same time fail to know it and then that same person is able to mistake it for something else that his conclusion of model failure ceases. Furthermore, the idea that in the soul is pieces of knowledge, either as an aviary of birds which a person catches or as impressions where a person matches their perceptions, lends itself as foolish and further discredits Socrates’ reasoning for the model’s failure. It appears for Socrates that knowledge is just ignorance, something one possesses. But that is incorrect; knowledge is the way the soul relates to things. Early in the dialogue Theaetetus offers the science of arithmetic and other sciences which Socrates identifies as paradigms of knowledge, not with birds in a cage with an ability of hunting, catching, and holding on to the birds (198A). By identifying knowledge as birds either possessed or had, the model never addresses knowledge understood as a relation to the birds.
. . . It was not correct for us to look for false opinion before knowledge . . . But the former is …show more content…
In conclusion, the soul serves as a thing that contains and possesses other things which are identified as pieces of knowledge in the Aviary model. The model supposes the soul has a dimension with a power allowing it to reach out, search, compare, and judge, but there is neither an explanation of this soul power nor therefore the possibility of mistaking something. The model does recognize that to judge falsely a person must have and not have what it is