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mantisgodsdomain · 3 months ago

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In Plato's theory of epistemology, anamnesis (/ˌænæmˈniːsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἀνάμνησις) refers to the recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth. The concept posits the claim that learning involves the act of rediscovering knowledge from within oneself.

In other news, we are continuing to post our Febuwhump fic to AO3, finally. This one isn't even Leif's Request spoilers.

#we speak #bug fables #we post our works #writing #leif #legal disclaimer: we think the philosophical concept of anamnesis is mostly wrong and a bit dumb #however we are invoking it to better get the point of the fic across #because a lot of tinkering with philosophy also involves working with points and people that you think are largely wrong #and also stupid #but they have interesting concepts that can be explored in cool and fun ways or invoked interestingly #unfortunately if we discuss the nuance of this we will hit the tag limit and also have like 5k words of talking about philosophy #so we will instead sum it up with the much less nuances “being reincarnated wouldn't mean you already knew everything dipshit”#“it just means that you would have had knowledge in previous lives that may or may not overlap with this life's knowledge”#“and the fact that you may be re-learning things does not mean that learning is an act of remembering and not simply learning again”#not very heavily related to the fic btw we just have strong opinions on philosophy

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