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Plato's cave
Plato's cave refers to the allegory of the cave presented in Book VII of Republic, a Socratic dialogue written by Plato, in which he recounts a conversation that had occurred between Socrates and Glaucon. In his telling of the allegory, Socrates constructs an image of bounded prisoners facing a wall in a cave, having only observed shadows of the real world in the duration of their lifetime, and suggests that, if released, their ideas of the real world would transform as a result of their shift in perception. One interpretation of this presented by arguments concerning epistemology understand the allegory to be a reflection on the human condition and the perceptual biases that inform our ideas of truth and reality.