Combining Philosophers

Ideas for David M. Armstrong, Robert Merrihew Adams and Plato

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine
5985 Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato]
5986 The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato]
357 People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato]
359 If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato]
5961 The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason
9343 To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
2045 Perception is infallible, suggesting that it is knowledge [Plato]
2067 Our senses could have been separate, but they converge on one mind [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
6498 Armstrong suggests secondary qualities are blurred primary qualities [Armstrong, by Robinson,H]
7440 Secondary qualities are microscopic primary qualities of physical things [Armstrong]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 7. Causal Perception
3900 Maybe experience is not essential to perception, but only to the causing of beliefs [Armstrong, by Scruton]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
2068 With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities? [Plato]
2078 You might mistake eleven for twelve in your senses, but not in your mind [Plato]
1637 A soul without understanding is ugly [Plato]
2162 If theory and practice conflict, the best part of the mind accepts theory, so the other part is of lower grade [Plato]
2069 Thought must grasp being itself before truth becomes possible [Plato]
151 True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [Plato]
334 Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence [Plato]