Innate Ideas and Plato

According to Plato, where do innate ideas exist?

• Inside us

• They don't

• In a previous existence

• In a physical realm

According to Plato, how can we achieve a perfect understanding of innate ideas?

• Through our senses

• Through a process of reasoning

• Through prior experience

• Through learning from others

What does Plato believe about the nature of concepts such as numbers and beauty?

• They are temporary and fleeting

• They are eternal and unchanging

• They are derived from our senses

• They are derived from our prior experience

In Plato's argument from the Slave boy, what does the questioning by Socrates help the boy to do?

• Learn from Socrates

• Recall innate knowledge

• Derive knowledge from prior experience

• Understand the concept of squares

According to Plato, what is the nature of mathematical and geometrical concepts?

• They correspond to objects in the physical world

• They are derived from our senses

• They are temporary and contingent

• They correspond to unchanging and perfect forms

What does Plato believe about the knowledge of concepts such as justice and beauty?

• They can only be derived from our senses

• They are temporary and contingent

• They are innate and eternal

• They are derived from prior experience