Originally posted by Doug Shaver
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Plato believed that long before our bodies ever existed, our souls existed and inhabited heaven, where they became directly acquainted with the forms themselves. Real knowledge, to him, was knowledge of the forms. But knowledge of the forms cannot be gained through sensory experience because the forms are not in the physical world. Therefore, our real knowledge of the forms must be the memory of our initial acquaintance with the forms in heaven. Therefore, what we seem to learn is in fact just remembering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory...dence_of_Forms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory...dence_of_Forms
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