anamnesis

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Plato once wrote of anamnesis, the idea that humans have innate knowledge buried within us, and that learning is the act of unearthing it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019

As for the Catholic belief that the Mass re-enacts Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the statement describes the Eucharistic service as an "anamnesis," or representation, of God's reconciling act in Christ's sacrifice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plato said that man kind never discovers anything new, but comes into the world knowing subconsciously all that can be known and simply exhumes it in a remembering process called anamnesis.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the familiar, autumnal Auden speaking: student of fleshly decay, writer of thank-you notes, urbane scold, expert at anamnesis, a celebrator of the numinous past that raises nostalgia almost to the level of ritual.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact we really found only 6 out of 58 cases of pure allopsychic delusions, which could be safely taken as showing so much coincidence between anamnesis and delusions that a correlation could be risked.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various