CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Belief, Gnosticism, Gettier Problem
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Here the story depicts prisoners that have been facing the wall for years thus all they ever seen is the shadow of a fire thus as long as you"re in the cage you will never experience true knowledge. True knowledge according to plato does not exist in this world, but exist in the world of forms. Plato"s theory of the forms: slave boy. : this is suppose to illustrate this idea that we are born with knowledge but need certain cues to awaken that knowledge, because he was able to do maths even though he never went to school: nativism. : plaoto"s allegory is strong or complete nativism since he claims that people are born with certain skills. His allegory contrasts to empirism which states that knowledge is acquired through experiences. 2: we are all born with the same knowledge, but we acquired different knowledge depending on the environmental cues that was used.