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Single Idea 359

[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine ]

Full Idea

If someone sees a resemblance, but feels that it falls far short of the original, they must therefore have a recollection of the original.

Gist of Idea

If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original

Source

Plato (Phaedo [c.374 BCE], 074e)

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.124

The 43 ideas from 'Phaedo'

16516 The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato]
24262 Sometimes, and for some people, death is better than life [Plato]
24263 We belong to the gods, and only kill ourselves if they indicate some necessity [Plato]
24264 Cebes responds critically to every idea he hears [Plato]
24265 After death I expect to join the wise gods, and good men [Plato]
350 In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts [Plato]
351 War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body [Plato]
9343 To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato]
24266 Normal temperance - scorn and control of desires - needs contempt of the body, and wisdom [Plato]
24267 Well-ordering is not temperance; it is just fear of pleasure becoming excessive [Plato]
354 Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato]
24268 It is a common fear that the soul may entirely disperse immediately after death [Plato]
357 People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato]
24269 When lovers see a beloved's lyre, they immediately think of the beloved [Plato]
359 If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato]
360 We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it [Plato]
24270 If we perceive equals, we need prior knowledge of the equal in itself [Plato]
24230 The Forms arise whenever we talk of something 'in itself'. [Plato]
24271 If a man knows something, he can give an account of it [Plato]
24225 Things like the Equal and the Beautiful, which are real, must be unchanging [Plato]
24226 The soul on its own enters a pure, unchanging and eternal realm, and experiences wisdom [Plato]
24272 Philosophy reveals that the senses are extremely deceptive [Plato]
361 It is a mistake to think that the most violent pleasure or pain is therefore the truest reality [Plato]
362 The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument [Plato]
24273 Simmias fears that the beautiful soul is attunement of the body, and dies with it [Plato]
24274 Critias thinks soul survives death into another body, but that process may still terminate [Plato]
363 Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality [Plato]
364 One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another [Plato]
15859 To investigate the causes of things, study what is best for them [Plato]
13154 Do we think and experience with blood, air or fire, or could it be our brain? [Plato]
13155 If you add one to one, which one becomes two, or do they both become two? [Plato]
13156 Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions! [Plato]
1 There is only one source for all beauty [Plato]
24275 Whether things are large or small needs the Forms of largeness and smallness [Plato]
24227 One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness [Plato]
24276 If you want to discover facts, don't muddle the start of enquiry with its conclusion [Plato]
368 Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them [Plato]
21347 If Simmias is taller than Socrates, that isn't a feature that is just in Simmias [Plato]
24277 Snow ceases to be snow if it admits the hot; it is the same if fire admits the cold [Plato]
24278 Threeness brings up oddness, which won't admit evenness [Plato]
24279 We no longer explain a hot body by 'heat', but by its containing fire [Plato]
369 If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato]
370 Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato]