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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REMINISCENCE (from See also:Lat. reminisci, to remember) , the recognized See also:translation of the See also:Greek See also:ava,uvrlots, which is used technically by See also:Plato in his See also:doctrine that the soul recovers knowledge of which it had See also:direct See also:intuition in a former incorporeal existence. The doctrine may be regarded as the poetical precursor of See also:modern a priori theories of knowledge and of " See also:race-memory " and the like.

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