Recollection and the Argument 'From a Hypothesis' in Plato's Meno

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Plato 's theory of remembrance is a reasonable solution to the men' s knowledge paradox. The general theme is the theory of recall of Plato. Plato 's theory of remembrance is a reasonable solution to the men' s knowledge paradox. In many of his conversations Plato often concludes that we can not understand something through five senses. He often concludes that we are familiar with our knowledge in former existence. In Meno, Socrates said, "Because the soul is immortal, born frequently, and since we saw everything here and underground, nothing was learned, so that was what it was known before I can remember You will not be surprised ... "Many Plato works

Plato 's theory of recollection won a few followers of western epistemology. Socrates taught Meno to prove this, in that case the memory argument disappears. Besides, before birth, especially in the Christian era, considering that the soul was a creation doctrine from scratch from the earliest days of life, the doctrine that existed before the soul was almost universally ignored It was. Meanwhile, Plato had not considered another option, ie, the soul began to exist "preloaded", it can be said to be knowledge or at least potential knowledge. This view stands out especially in Descartes' the "innate concept" theory.

Plato's "recall theory" can be traced back to the idea detailed by him in the "Meno" dialogue. Essentially, Plato believes that our soul has an existing state. But in the current situation, it loses this knowledge, and all learning refers to the process of remembering this knowledge.