In Phaedo, Socrates argues that learning is recollecting knowledge, meaning that the knowledge we have acquired, was recalled from our previous lives. This means that we would have had to been exposed to this knowledge before we were born, which Socrates uses to argue that our souls are immortal. Socrates states “according to this, we must at some previous time have learned what we now recollect. This is possible only if our soul existed somewhere before it took on this human shape” (Plato, 72e-73). Socrates explains that knowledge is recalled through the examples of stones and sticks. We can view a two physical object from one angle and state that they are equal, but if we view it from another angle, they are no longer equal. This means that
