Plato thought that the kinds of a priori reasoning typically used in mathematics and geometry involve the "recollection" (anamnesis) of temporarily forgotten thoughts from a previous life.
Anamnesis, "commemoration" or "recollection," is one of the crucial parts of the Christian celebration of Holy Communion.
Through the anamnesis, the Passion and death of the Lord is "applied" to the congregation.
The fish pendant, on Dick's account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total recall of the entire sum of knowledge.
In Stephan's game Anamnesis, you play as a FEMA agent helping to relocate people after a super flu has devastated the city.
This Christian conception of the relation between (eternal) truth and time is distinct from the Socratic notion that (eternal) truth is always already within us it just needs to be recovered by means of recollection (anamnesis).
Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science.
The issue first comes up in the Meno, where he puts forth the doctrine of anamnesis, which holds that all learning is recollection, that everything we will ever learn is already in us before we are taught.[3] According to this view, perception and inquiry remind us of what is innate in us.
This is the famous Anamnesis theory (81a-d).
Very importantly, it interferes with true "recollection" (anamnesis, 249c2), that process described at length and (for the most part) poetically in the dialogue's "palinode," by which the knowledge latent in the soul is brought out through question and answer (274d-275b).
Socrates does not elaborate the anamnesis claim as much as we would like.
