?Everyone goes through life knowing and believing certain things. But what would one do when he discovers all he thought was true is in fact false? Howard Gardner's "A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences," Rene Descartes' "Fourth Meditation: Of Truth and Error" and Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" can aid one in finding the answer to this question. In order to discover truth one must take a journey that includes these essential steps of finding the truth, understanding the truth, and using newly found truth.
             Everyone has his or her own meaning of truth, and in order to know what truth is, one must conceive the meaning of it. In grasping the meaning of truth one will know what they are searching for in their journey. In "The Allegory of the Cave," Plato interprets truth as one's perception of something through the use of one's mind and not by one's senses (448). This idea that Plato expresses is quite complex. This means that one is not able to rely on their senses to find truth because senses may be deceiving and lead to deception but the use of the mind is reliable because information would be processed and analyzed and have an actual basis. Rene Descartes believes truth is the perception of something which is discovered through spiritual means and not by sensory means. When he talks about spiritual means Descartes refers to God. Plato believes that one must use gifts from God to discern the truth (465). In "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" Gardner states that truth which is knowledge that comes from an internal basis (508).
             After determining what truth means to oneself, one must evaluate everything he has ever known and inquire after any fallacy. In "The Allegory of the Cave," human beings have been living in the in the underground cave since childhood and only know what they have been seeing/perceiving in the dar...