Recollection

that our memory is not fallible. Research has proven that sometimes there are many flaws with our memory. We seem to be too confident in our recollections. This is the case with Jim and his memory of his parents winning the lottery. This memory was vivid in his head, he could picture everything. So when he found out he was completely wrong about this recollection, he was probably extremely shocked, but there is an explanation for what happened to Jim. In 1977 Roger Brown and James Kulik coined the

conscious by recollection; thereby overcoming the sharp division between not-knowing and knowing, and justifying inquiry." (Sternfeld, 35) Socrates states in the Meno " A man cannot inquire about what he knows, because he knows it, and in that case he is in no need of inquiry, nor again can he inquire about what he does not know, since he does not know what he is to inquire." (Plato 80E) This theory of recollection may explain why

that it must be true that learning is recollection. Simmias acknowledge this premise due to the limit of his knowledge. However, I believe the premise is wrong. If learning is recollection, why can someone can recollect more things than others? For example, Asian students are more likely to have high scores in math than white and black students. Students are integrated by the same teacher in the same class. Why are the results different? If learning is recollection, all students should have the same

In Plato’s Meno, I propose to trisect Socrates’ dialogue with the slave boy as follows. Socrates initially asks him by what means he could double the area of a square. At first glance, the slave boy is under the false belief that to double a square’s area one must correspondingly make the square’s sides ‘twice the size’ (82e). Secondly, the slave boy subsequently experiences ‘Aporia’ whereby he starts to doubt himself as uncertainty kicks in. In struggling to find his solution as is made apparent

progress through life, it seems that simple things become difficult to recall. The question is does memory decline with age. There have been numerous debates about whether age has any correlation with memory deterioration or if our lapse in the recollection of our memories is contributed to stress we are experiencing. Another important factor that we must consider is the illnesses that are linked to memory loss such as Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. How does a researcher examine memory decline

are better recalling early memories than boys. However, children are unable to remember memories of events that they have been through before the age of four, even when they become older. Sometimes children will recall memories, although their recollection involves false memories most of the time as a result of questioning and “unintentional cuing” by adults. Because of this, the “American Psychiatric Association has cautioned

3. Explain how the Allegory of the Cave represents Plato’s views about the nature of knowledge and the nature of reality. In the Allegory of the Cave there are chained prisoners in cave who can only stare at the cave wall in front of them. At the back there is a long entrance with a staircase the width of the cave and a fire burning in the distance. They see only shadows projected in front of them from a raised platform and hear an echo that they attribute to what they observe. They talk about and

response. In conclusion, Mr. Wertz’s traumatic event has not been treated and he displays symptoms of having posttraumatic stress disorder; however, the symptoms are taken from previous recollections after he was arrested. His medical record does not account for PTSD, so there is no documentation that his recollections are reliable. I believe that Mr. Wertz does battle with posttraumatic stress

What does plato mean with the expression “contemplation of death”? Describe the doctrine of ideas as exposed in the Phaedo. Plato’s idea of reality can be explained through his doctrine of ideas. He argues the point through a dialogue argument between Socrates and his friends. Socrates thinks that there are two kinds of existences; firstly, the visible world that we perceive with our senses, which is human, mortal, composite, unintelligible, and always changing. Secondly, the invisible world of

existed prior to our birth. In making this argument, he claims that we had some knowledge of imperceptible things prior to our birth, and that through “recollection” of our pre-birth knowledge of imperceptible things, we are able to perceive certain qualities of things like equality beginning after our birth. Socrates’ argument begins by defining recollection as when someone ‘perceives one thing, knows that thing, and also thinks of another thing of which the knowledge is not the same but different’ (73c)