the soul, that is, the human mind, before it is united with the body, is aquatinted with the intelligible world or the world of Forms. ... The theory of recollection is told through Plato in the Phaedo and the Meno. ... (Plato 80E) This theory of recollection may explain why we often say that we had certain knowledge before we leaned it or heard it for the first time. ... Hume shows how knowledge begins form the experiences we encounter through our five senses. ... (Cantor 12) Aristotle was one of Plato's students for over twenty years until Plato's death. ...

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