The Socratic Logos Throughout the Meno, Euthyphro, and Symposium Socrates is questioning his interlocutor in an attempt to find the definition of some term. His criterion for a good definition or logos is for the definition to apply to all occasions of the subject and nothing else. Also, the logos must not mention the subject being defined. Socrates is usually unsuccessful in finding a satisfactory account of his subject, but during his discussion of love with Diotima she tells Socrates that "Love is wanting to posses the good forever,"(Symposium, 206a) and this seems to be a valid logos for love. Socrates and his interlocutors usually go through several defi