Plato wanted to further explore the importance the soul and knowledge that was previously discussed. In his Recollection Argument, Plato presented a set of premises that tried to justify the idea that the soul had a wisdom that came prior to birth. One of the premises, “knowledge does not come from sense experience”, is the basis of the Imperfect Argument and innate knowledge. The argument states that we have the knowledge of absolute equality through our ability to know that any two sensible objects are imperfect. As we know that no pair sensible objects can be perfectly equal when compared, as there’s always some minor differences, it can be said that our knowledge of absolute equality comes from something other than our observation. Plato
