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In returning to the form of bis early elenctic dialogues in the Theaetetus, Plato once again brings into prominence Socrates' old definitional question s well s the apparent impossibility of ever answering it in a satisfactory manner. The essay that follows raises some problems about the general features of that question in the hope of coming to a better understanding of its specific object in this dialogue: the nature of knowledge, of episteme. Socrates begins the main discussion of the Theaetetus by telling his young interlocutor, in very traditional manner, that he wants "to know what exactly knowledge itself is." The construction what knowledge is and others similar to it are emphasized on a number of occasions at the opening stages of the investigation. When Socrates, for example, appeals to the definition of clay in order to explain why Theaetetus' first attempt to define knowledge fails, he asks him to suppose that "someone had asked concerning clay . . . what exactly it is." Further on, he speaks of "someone who does not know what something is" s well s of "someone who is asked what knowledge is." As a final instance, we can cite his exhortation to Theaetetus to try hard "to grasp the account of what knowledge is." Plato, however, had never been consistent in the terms he used in order to specify Socrates' concern. In the Euthyphro, for example. though Socrates wants the seer to "teach him exactly what the form [of

Episteme and Logos in Plato’s Later Thought