Answer to Question 1
- Rationalists like Plato support their view that genuine knowledge is based on reason, not sense experience, by noting that humans seem to possess knowledge that is not derived solely from experience in the world, such as the principles of mathematics and logic.
- Plato used the story of the slave boy to illustrate that knowledge is latent and simply needs to be remembered. Such knowledge is considered to be innate because it is present at birth.
Answer to Question 2
Level A: Universal higher Forms such as Truth, Beauty, Good, and Justice
- Level B: Beginning of lower Forms: the realm of human experience where knowledge begins to exist
- Level C: Perception, produced by the five senses
- Level D: Imagination, the level of illusion; it is composed of unsubstantiated beliefs, transitory images, and fragmentary impressions that are received uncritically
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