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concept:plato-s-allegory-of-the-cavePlato's Allegory of the Cave
Philosophical analogy: training data are shadows on the cave wall, but models recover representations of the actual world outside
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- Platonic Representationassociated_withcitesThe hypothesized converged representation that all sufficiently large AI models are approaching — a statistical model of underlying reality
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- Referenced for Aristotelian science, practical wisdom, and formal/final causation; contrast to modern Newtonian paradigm.