Ancient Philosophical Influences

• "The only thing I know is that I know nothing" - Socrates
• Tabula Rasa - blank slate
• Anamnesis - the act of remembering memories from the Noeton
• Eikasia - the opinions given to us by the Horaton
• Analogy - a way of explaining something via a metaphorical story
• Empiricism - the idea that knowledge is based on experience and observation
• Episteme - true knowledge
• Epistemology - the study of knowledge
• Form - the truth or the truest version of something
• Metempsychosis - the belief that the soul is reincarnated after death
• Particulars - the real world examples of the forms
• Rationalism - the use of reason to gain knowledge
• "Choose a field of research and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it. His range is astonishing" - Johnathan Barnes