e of the Forms”. Therefor they cannot simply exist. Plato said Forms are related to things in three ways: cause, participation and imitation. But in relation to Forms and it-self Plato stated, “we can have discourse only through the weaving together of Forms”. Plato doesn’t mean to say that all Forms are related to each other only that significant things use some Forms and that just knowing that includes understanding the relationship between Forms. Plato says there are three ways to discover Forms: recollection, dialectic and desire. Recollection is when our souls remember the Forms from prior existence. Dialectic is when people discuss and explore the Forms together. And third is the desire for knowledge. Plato’s Theory of Knowledge leads us down many roads but we see the same theme through out: light to dark; ignorant to educated; reality to really real. In The Cave we move from the dark of the cave to the light of outdoors, we even see a glimps of how knowledge can effect us. The Divine Line took us from the ignorance of Imagining to the educated Perfect Intelligence. The Forms showed us that even though we can see something does not mean we can see all of it and just because we cannot see something does not mean it does not exist. All three link knowledge as the key to all, if you have knowledge there is nothing you cannot have....
