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==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
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century]
==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
:b : [[knowledge]] or [[feeling]] that someone or something present has been encountered before
*2 : special notice or [[attention]]
*3 : the sensing and encoding of printed or written [[data]] by a [[machine]] <optical character recognition> <magnetic ink character recognition>
==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]].
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).
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
==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
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century]
==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
:b : [[knowledge]] or [[feeling]] that someone or something present has been encountered before
*2 : special notice or [[attention]]
*3 : the sensing and encoding of printed or written [[data]] by a [[machine]] <optical character recognition> <magnetic ink character recognition>
==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]].
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).
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]