THE CONCEPT OF THE DIVIDED LINE IN PLATO’S EPISTEMOLOGY: A CRITIQUE
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1:1 Background to the study Plato's divided line is a vertical line, divided unequally with the largest segment on top. These two segments represent the intelligible realm (at the top) and the visible realm (at the bottom). The two segments are divided again into subsections which represent proportions between images and originals; the lower subsections of each segment represent some involvement with images, whereas the upper subsections ...
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