How does one know if what they are looking at is real or not. How do we know that what we are living is our reality. These are some questions that have been asked for many years many and by philosophers. The actual definition of real is actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. But how can one truly know that what they saw was not imagined or a dream. Like in the movie Contact, the main character Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway traveled through time to another planet in another galaxy. Ellie experienced things that no one else has ever experienced, and when he came back to Earth she had no evidence of the planet she visited. None would believed, they thought she had gone mad or dreamed that she traveled …show more content…
Innside the cave the prisoners are chained in way that prohibits them from turning their heads, only able to see what is in front of them. They can only see a wall with shadows of figures. The shadows of are what people walking by show: projections of objects that are not real but seem real because they have never seen the “real” world. Plato’s allegory of the cave can be interpreted in many different ways. I believe that this allegory is trying to portray how one becomes knowledgeable. I think that the allegory of the cave is more empiricist. The prisoners who have been chained since early childhood are the everyday man who has not had any experiences. When the prisoner is set free and sees the world for the first time, means that the prisoner started to have some experiences. When he goes back and tries to explain to his friends what he had seen, his friends cam not understand because they having had experienced to gain knowledge. For what he saying is just words they don't understand. Even though Plato was a rationalist I still believe that his allegory of the cave can be seen more as an empiricist view of knowledge. Rationalism believe in innate ideas:when an individual has knowledge before birth. Empiricism is the belief in sense perception, and in not in innate