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nothing new to find, but rather, one will only discover answers that already exist. At least, it must exist in the collective consciousness. Perhaps it exists in a past life.
D?j? vu is an example of this phenomenon. Someone experiences a feeling or knowledge that they do not remember acquiring or experiencing before. In other words, people may pose questions,
but they already know the answers. The theory of forms is something that is equated with this idea. With form, the concept is that the form did exist a priori.
It is also something known deep within the individual. A common example used is the color red. It cannot be described. Red has to be experienced. It is Platos contention
that this sense of color existed previously and one is just drawing on this a priori knowledge when the understand the color. Plato (380 BC) writes: " all enquiry and
all learning is but recollection." In Meno, a boy is asked a series of questions and from there, Socrates makes an example of this boy to demonstrate the theory
of recollection. Socrates finally proves his point. He says: " but if he always possessed this knowledge he would always have known; or if he has acquired the knowledge he
could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be made to do the same with all geometry and every other branch
of knowledge. Now, has any one ever taught him all this? You must know about him, if, as you say, he was born and bred in your house" (Plato, 380
BC). Eventually, through the use of questions and the knowledge of this boy, Platos point is made. Is this point well taken? Is there anything that might contradict the point
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