Our knowledge of propositions must be about

the forms.

A. Extreme
Rationalism Knowledge is possible and learning truths
can be done.

He believed in a priori
knowledge; knowledge that
can be learned through
reason.

the result of an infallible

faculty with access to eternal
things can count as
knowledge.

Knowledge comes from B. Knowledge vs. D. Roles of the Senses The senses are reminders of the things
reason and comes from that we forgot from our former states.
Opinion Through it we can recollect the
the forms.
Plato's Theory of Knowledge knowledge that we knew.

Opinion comes from the senses and is

based from the particulars which can
change and be gone.

1. The divided analogy

2. The Sun analogy

C. He illustrated his ideas through visual analogies 3. The Cave analogy