Plato;

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Name: Plato Birth: 427 BC Death: 347 BC Country of Origin: Athens, Greece
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Plato was a pupil under Socrates and was his most famous student. Plato opened a school whose most famous student was Aristotle. During his time Plato came up with four degrees of knowledge which consisted of: apprehension of pure sense images, perceptive knowledge of sensible objects, mathematical knowledge, and philosophical knowledge. Plato also had the theory known as Platonics which explains “ideal forms as an absolute and eternal reality of which the phenomena of the world are an imperfect and transitory reflection.”(answers.com)