Epistemology: Doxa

Doxa

• Through his metaphor of the Dividend Line, Plato provides a detailed description of the levels of knowledge. In the process of acquiring true knowledge, one goes through four stages of development.
• At each of these stages Plato drew a parallel line between the object of experience and the thought that makes the object possible.
• In the above diagram of the Dividend Line, the line drawn is vertical, breaking the objects of experience into four segments, representing different thought pat…

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