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Originally posted by Beestie
All Plato's cave says to me is that what we see is but an aspect of reality. It does not make the case that we all see the shadows differently (subjectively) but that what we see is not "all there is to it." I understand that Plato felt that way (objective realist) but that kind of thinking (absolutism if not objectivism) is pretty black and blue since 1905 or so.
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Plato's allegory also covers the trauma of gaining knowledge that is so different from what we "know". To me, it's a warning against hiding behind dogma and ideology too much.