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Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Allegory of the Cave in the Republic

Plato was a thoroughly dualist philosopher. He saw the world as existing on two distinct planes. There was the visible, material world that one encountered every day,. And then there was the plane ofn cepts, the pure ideas of things.

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