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RATIONALISM
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RATIONALISM
Plato
- Knowledge as recollection: Slave boy example - PROMPTED AND NOT RECOLLECTION
- Allegory of the cave - illuminates the philosophers' task. Shadows on the wall - we believe what we see is real - ESCAPEE SEES REALITY!
- There are universal forms in the world that are abstract, spaceless, timeless. E.g: a chair has the form chairness - IT CAN BE CHIPPED AT AND RESHAPED BUT WE WILL STILL RECOGNISE IT AS A CHAIR BECAUSE OF THE FORM
- CRITICISMS: ARISTOTLE: leap to forms = mysterious PLATO'S OWN CRITICISM: third man argument - form of man requires man or equals an infinite regress!
- There are universal forms in the world that are abstract, spaceless, timeless. E.g: a chair has the form chairness - IT CAN BE CHIPPED AT AND RESHAPED BUT WE WILL STILL RECOGNISE IT AS A CHAIR BECAUSE OF THE FORM
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- Mind Map on RATIONALISM, created by bradybaybee on 11/04/2014.
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- bradybaybee · Apr 2014
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