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In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

    { 1 } - the material world.
    { 2 } - the world of the body.
    { 3 } - the sensible world.
    { 4 } - the world of ideas.
    { 5 } - the world of the uneducated.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

The cave symbolizes the material world in that they are both copy worlds: the material world a copy of the world of ideas as the world inside the cave is a copy of the outside world.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

    { 1 } - the material world.
    { 2 } - the world of the body.
    { 3 } - the sensible world.
    { 4 } - the world of ideas.
    { 5 } - the world of the uneducated.

The world of the body is the material, that is the sensible, world.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

    { 1 } - the material world.
    { 2 } - the world of the body.
    { 3 } - the sensible world.
    { 4 } - the world of ideas.
    { 5 } - the world of the uneducated.

The sensible world is the material world. It is symbolized by the inside of the cave.

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4 is correct!

In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

    { 1 } - the material world.
    { 2 } - the world of the body.
    { 3 } - the sensible world.
    { 4 } - the world of ideas.
    { 5 } - the world of the uneducated.

For Socrates and Plato, the world of ideas is reality, just as the world outside the cave is reality in the cave analogy.

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5 is wrong. Please try again.

In the cave analogy, the world outside the cave symbolizes:

    { 1 } - the material world.
    { 2 } - the world of the body.
    { 3 } - the sensible world.
    { 4 } - the world of ideas.
    { 5 } - the world of the uneducated.

The world of the uneducated is the material world.

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