Plato was a philosopher in ancient Greece. He believed that the hierarchy of knowledge was how we understand Truth and acquire knowledge. Plato wrote about the hierarchy of knowledge in his The Seventh Letter. The hierarchy of knowledge from the bottom (the furthest from Truth) to the top (Truth itself) is name, definition, the thing itself, then Forms or Ideas. Plato starts with the name and the definition of the thing. This makes sense when we apply it to how we learn. For example, if we are teaching one what a tree is we would start by telling them the name then it’s definition. “This is a tree, a tree is defined as ‘a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing
