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Within Plato, the image is
determinate concept from the world of ideas.
True knowledge consists
in fitting the imprints of sense impression on to the mold
or imprint of the higher reality of which the things here
below are reflections.É The power to do this depends on a
knowledge of the soul and the soul's true knowledge consists
in the recollection of the Ideas. Memory is not a 'section'
of this treatise, as one part of the art of rhetoric; memory
in the Platonic sense is the groundwork of the
whole.32
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