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n. - The ability to recall past occurrences; The case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient.

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  • Plato wrote that humanity could only know the 'real' world in the form of memories; by what he termed anamnesis, meaning the recovery of buried memories, both individual...
  • The word anamnesis, then, gives us almost everything we need to know about the significance of this section to the book as a whole, to the ending, and to the Iron...
  • It is my understanding that "anamnesis" means something more like "making present" than quite what we mean by remembrance.
  • Plato's anamnesis solution sees inquiry as a kind of deep memory recall.
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