The Answer

If you think I'm going to give you an answer that answers all questions or an answer to THE question, either one you're pondering over or whatever, you'll probably think the answer is a cop out. No answer is ever sufficient to answer the question you're having. There will always be another answer that is better than the answer you've settled with. Does Socrates really know nothing like he confesses? How can he then extract from his interlocutors ideas they had never previously thought? He does not know because he cannot know that he knows: he could be false. Like all answers, we could be false in presuming to know what we think we know, what we're "certain" we know. There are no answers, I'm sorry to say; only this one.