Maria Trepp » Blog Archive » Het wilde denken van Lévi-Strauss. Epistemology. 1.
The Varieties of Cognitive Success There are many different kinds of cognitive success, and they differ from one another along various dimensions. Allegory of the Cave. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones - StumbleUpon.