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D

Forms

Knowledge /Active Insight

C

Mathematical Objects

DiscursiveThinking

Intelligible World

B

Visible Things

Belief /Trust

Visible World

A

Images

Imagination

Finally, released prisonersees the actual objects, andeventually, the sun itself

Outside the cave

released prisoner seesreflections in the water

Released

prisoner seesthe fire, etc.

The prisoners

see only shadows

Adapted from N. Jordan,

Western Philosophy: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages

(

, 1987), p. 5.Pearson

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