Plato's Cave is the idea that we are all shackled in a cave, staring at the wall of the cave. Outside are the perfect objects - the perfect horse, teacher, tree, star, etc. However, they are behind us so we can't see them. There's a fire, though, which casts the shadows of those perfect things onto the wall. What we see are those shadows, essentially mockeries of the perfect things. So every horse we see is but a mockery of the perfect horse, which is behind us.
Rather interesting theory. I suppose one could say that through Hegelian Dialectic, we arrive at a better understanding of that perfect thing.
"Arvy is randomly full of win." - Skarr
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"I don't watch cartoons, those are for third class people." - Arvy
"Yeah, children, those third class people." - Sails
And because I bet Blatant he wouldn't be orange in two days and lost... HEIL BLATANT!