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| ==Etymology== | | ==Etymology== |
− | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] recognicion, from Anglo-French recognition, from [[Latin]] recognition-, recognitio, from recognoscere | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] recognicion, from Anglo-French recognition, from [[Latin]] recognition-, recognitio, from recognoscere |
− | *Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] | + | *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] |
| ==Definitions== | | ==Definitions== |
| *1 : the [[action]] of recognizing : the [[state]] of [[being]] recognized: as a : acknowledgment; especially : [[formal]] acknowledgment of the [[political]] [[existence]] of a [[government]] or nation | | *1 : the [[action]] of recognizing : the [[state]] of [[being]] recognized: as a : acknowledgment; especially : [[formal]] acknowledgment of the [[political]] [[existence]] of a [[government]] or nation |
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| *3 : the sensing and encoding of printed or written [[data]] by a [[machine]] <optical character recognition> <magnetic ink character recognition> | | *3 : the sensing and encoding of printed or written [[data]] by a [[machine]] <optical character recognition> <magnetic ink character recognition> |
| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
− | Plato can be said to have believed that [[humans]] learn entirely through recollection. He [[thought]] that humans already possessed [[knowledge]], and that they only had to be led to [[discover]] what they already knew. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Meno Meno], Plato used the [[character]] of [[Socrates]] to ask a slave boy questions in an [[excellent]] [[demonstration]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method Socratic method] until the slave boy came to [[understand]] a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root square root] without Socrates providing him with any [[information]]. | + | Plato can be said to have believed that [[humans]] learn entirely through recollection. He [[thought]] that humans already possessed [[knowledge]], and that they only had to be led to [[discover]] what they already knew. In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Meno Meno], Plato used the [[character]] of [[Socrates]] to ask a slave boy questions in an [[excellent]] [[demonstration]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method Socratic method] until the slave boy came to [[understand]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root square root] without Socrates providing him with any [[information]]. |
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− | After [[witnessing]] the example with the slave boy, Meno tells [[Socrates]] that he thinks that Socrates is correct in his [[theory]] of recollection, to which Socrates replies, “I think I am. I shouldn’t like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don’t know...” ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno Meno], 86b). | + | After [[witnessing]] the example with the slave boy, Meno tells [[Socrates]] that he thinks that Socrates is correct in his [[theory]] of recollection, to which Socrates replies, “I think I am. I shouldn’t like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don’t know...” ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meno Meno], 86b). |
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| [[Category: Psychology]] | | [[Category: Psychology]] |
| [[Category: Philosophy]] | | [[Category: Philosophy]] |