... also unknowable. For example, you cannot say that 'beauty lies in the eye of the beholder' as that is merely a matter of opinion, a matter which can only be decided when the senses are used. However, truth and beauty are not relative to the individual or to the moment. Therefore a sculpture, for example, cannot be both beautiful and ugly at the same time, it is either one or the other. So Plato believes that knowledge can be separated from the senses, by the state of mind and outcome it generates. To Plato, knowledge is dependent on those features of the universe that do not change at all. The fact that 'man is man' is unchanging; although man's physical features may change. Plato believes that no knowledge can be attained through any learning process; as that would indicate our previous ignorance of the truth, hence, it would be impossible ...

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