The Triple Filter Test of SOCRATES

Socrates was a wise man in Ancient Greece. He held truth and knowledge in high
esteem. One day a fellow went up to the great philosopher and said,
"Do you know what I just heard about your friend?".
"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything, I ´d like you
to pass a little test. It ´s called the Triple Filter Test."
"Triple filter?".
"That ´s right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it
might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you ´re going to say.
That ´s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you
made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."
"All right," said Socrates. "So you don ´t know if it ´s
true or not. Now let ´s try the second filter, the
filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me
about my friend something good?"
"No, on the contrary..."
"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me
something bad about him, but you ´re not certain it ´s
true. You could still pass the test though, because
there ´s one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is
what you want to tell me about my friend going to be
useful to me?"
"No, not really."
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good
nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

Underline/ highlight the words on the left in the text. Then, circle the word or phrase on the right
which has the closest meaning to the word/ phrase on the left. Number 1 is given as an example.

1) Ancient old, modern, famous

2) Wise sensible, clever, knowledgeable
3) Fellow friend, guy, gentleman
4) In high esteem good judgement, of great value, a good guess
5) Triple three, treble, third
6) Absolutely quite, certainly, nearly
7) On the contrary moreover, on the other hand, quite the opposite
8) Continued kept going, stopped talking, went on
9) Useful worthwhile, of use, needy
10) Concluded rounded up, finished off, debated
Answer the questions: true or false?

1) Socrates was Greek. T/ F

2) He really valued people telling the truth. T/ F
3) He was a plumber. T/ F
4) A group of men went up to him. T/ F
5) A man approached him and said he had something to tell Socrates about his
friend. T/ F
6) Socrates wanted to hear somethng bad about his friend. T/ F
7) Socrates told the man he would have to do a test before speaking to him. T/ F
8) The man had something true to tell Socrates. T/ F
9) To pass the triple filter test, you only had to score one out of the three. T/ F
10) The man did not end up telling Socrates anything about his friend. T/ F