Plato's doctrine of recollection states that rather than “learning” in the common sense, what is in reality occurring when people think, and eventually find an answer or solution to a problem, is that they are “recollecting” concepts they already knew. It is, in Plato’s view, recovery from amnesia developed through the process of recycling of “souls.” Plato’s Meno is logically inconsistent. If knowledge is “justified true belief,” as Plato defines it, then the acquisition of knowledge is the subjective formation and justification of belief rather than the objective recollection of absolute knowledg
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