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The Allegory of the cave:

1) What argument does Socrates make in his allegory about the difference between
belief and wisdom in the allegory of the cave?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Socrates demonstrates that the prison inmates see the shadows as reality because they've never seen anything whatsoever; they have no idea that what they are seeing are shadows of object classes at the front of a flames, much less that these items are motivated by real things from outside cave that they've never seen, and thus the realisation of the world.

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