Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Lycophron, Plato and Jonathan Swift

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine

357	People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato]

5985	Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato]

5986	The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato]

5961	The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato]

359	If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [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 / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

2068	With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities? [Plato]

2069	Thought must grasp being itself before truth becomes possible [Plato]

2078	You might mistake eleven for twelve in your senses, but not in your mind [Plato]

151	True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [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]

334	Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence [Plato]