Recollection argument is offered immediately

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The recollection argument (72e–77a) is offered immediately after the cyclical argument to buttress it. The doctrine of recollection holds that the human mind is possessed of immaterial forms that could never have been received through sense experience. How does Socrates argue for this position?

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