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Single Idea 357

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

Full Idea

The way in which people react to a geometrical diagram or anything like that is unmistakable proof of the theory of recollection.

Gist of Idea

People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram

Source

Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 073a)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.121