... able to escape from the Matrix. We are not told how this first man came to this knowledge, just as we don't know how there came to be a first freed prisoner in Plato's cave analogy, but Neo would not have known the differences between the two worlds were it not for Morpheus and his crew teaching him. Though knowing the difference ... . No artifice up here; nature and truth rule. Enlightenment is initially baffling and difficult; but once adjusted, the eyes feast, the soul has found what truly nourishes it, and the prisoner who has been liberated from the matrix is deeply happy and theref...

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... , and even including his own philosophy in that category. He says that the reason that he has written the Dialogues in such an informal manner is 'especially because these ideas carry with them a great opposition to the prejudices of philosophers which have so far prevailed against the common sense and natural notions of mankind." (6) The opening of the First Dialogue proceeds ... ...

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... if man could not be aware of that he was thinking that he was therefore not thinking. In conclusion to Locke's thoughts toward the senses and the importance that they carry towards learning it is obvious that Locke saw the senses as the primary source if not the only source of all knowledge as it is through those senses that humans ... ...

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