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After you have completed the reading in Wikipedia as assigned ("The Allegory of the Cave") Imagine that you are in the Socrates' cave. At what stage are you? Still chained? Walking out into the light? How do you know where you are? What evidence in your life supports your claim that you are where you are?

The stage I think I would be in is walking out into the light. I would have been curious about the figures that made the shadows. We know that some shadows don't appear to be the actual figure,they tend to be something else. I would like to see if there's something more outside of the cave. If I was a prisoner in a cave for all my life,I would be tired of living in that cave. I would want to get out, see the world. To see if what's outside the cave is real or an illusion. I don't think I would know where I am. I mean is that I would know that I'm outside of the cave, but what exactly is outside of the cave. I guess there will be differences between the inside of the cave and outside of the cave. Everything would be light and bright outside, so light it would blind my eyes. The evidence in my life that supports my claim that where I am is by everything around me I guess. By seeing the people and not those stick figures, or the animals, trees, houses and other stuff. Basically the evidence would be all around me. Everything I see would give me enough evidence to believe that I am where I am. But if I didn't know where I was, it would be difficult to know what evidence supports my claim. I guess to sum it up you will not know what's reality or what's an illusion unless you find out for yourself.