· Plato ·

For Plato, acquiring knowledge was related to reason and sense experience, but it didn’t end there. He considered sense experience only the basis of what it means to reason/think, since it is always changing and often unreliable. To him, information becomes knowledge at the moment it undergoes a reasoning process.

Plato’s theory in metaphysics has to do with the World of Forms, where everything is perfect. This theory is closely related to his epistemology theory. He says that when we leave that perfect world to live in this imperfect world we forget about the knowledge and awareness of truth we had before. In order to regain that knowledge, we must go through the process experiencing and sensing this world to then remember the truth we forgot. Forms (ideas) let us think and reason, therefore leading us to understanding. The mind achieves knowledge after thinking about, reasoning, questioning, and understanding ideas. 

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