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Socrates
My teacher, Socrates, said there is absolute truth. What I wanna know is What is truth? And where can I find it?
Plato
So where do we look?
You go to a bakery and you see 50 identical gingerbread men. How could they be exactly alike? Looking more closely you notice they are not exactly alike, they are all slightly different. Yet, they all have much in common. Why?
You have a box of lego. You build a horse. You take it apart and put it back in the box. If you want to rebuild the horse you open the box and you put it together again. Why is it that you are able to build the horse again?
Answer
The gingerbread men are all the same because they all come from the same cookie cutter, the same mould. The reason you can rebuild the horse as many times as you want is because you have a picture in your mind of what a horse looks like. Whatever horse you build is made from an idea of a horse, a model, you have in your mind.