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Single Idea 151

[from 'Phaedrus' by Plato, in 12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism ]

Full Idea

True knowledge is concerned with the abode of true reality, without colour or shape, intangible but utterly real, apprehensible only to the intellect.

Gist of Idea

True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience

Source

Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 247c)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.52