Plato

• Plato adopts an a priori and rationalistic approach to learning.
• The senses experience flux and transience which causes them to deceive us.
• Examples of our senses deceiving us: phantom limb, optical illusions.
• Knowledge can only be accessed via innate unchanging reason.
• We had all our knowledge, but it got lost through birth so we get mere reflections - we have to access it.
• The realm of the forms is a metaphysical world that partakes in ours.
• The realm of the forms holds the perfect and true form of everything around us, including concepts like beauty.
• Objects that are in the real world are lesser copies of the true form in the realm of the forms, as they can experience change.
• The form of the Good is at the apex as it is where we get our knowledge from.
• The physical world is merely an illusion of the real world.
• We are shackled by our senses and must break free to experience true knowledge