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Genuine knowledge, according to Plato, is discovered or recollected by examining one's own experience. Group of answer choices True False

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Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived after Socrates. He thought that genuine knowledge was based on ideas and that it could only be achieved through the innate ideas we are born with. He thought that we all came from a world where we had access to these ideas but that when the person was born, he lost recollection of these ideas and lost contact with true knowledge and the person was only left with their own experience which didn't give a true knowledge. It was through anamnesis, a method by which we contemplate things not from our experience but from our soul that we can rediscover that knowledge.

Therefore, Genuine knowledge, according to Plato, is discovered or recollected by examining our own soul.

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