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History and Systems of PsychologyLecture 2 ED PS 7080 August 31, 2010 Instructor: Robert Hill, Ph.D. What do you think? Mind: Was it discovered? Is it a tool? Is it a social construction? Review from Lecture 1 Socrates First to study the meaning and nature of human concepts Humans are endowed with innate knowledge – socratic method (pedagogy) Plato Our understandings and capabilities are innate (nativism) Knowledge is based on two general concepts: The intelligible world/The world of appearances Allegory of the cave We are a victim of our own beliefs, “Truth” through transcending beliefs P