Where does anamnesis collide?

In philosophy, anamnesis is Plato's doctrine that what we call learning is really recollection: the soul already possesses knowledge from before birth, and inquiry draws it back out rather than putting it in from outside. In the Meno, Socrates leads an untutored slave to a geometric truth by questioning alone, offered as evidence that the knowledge was recovered, not taught. The referent is this account of knowledge as retrieval of what was latent, a construct in epistemology that has nothing to do with an immune system's second response or a doctor's intake interview beyond the common thread of calling something back to mind.[1]

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Argued rather than measured, through the recovery of latent knowledge under questioning

In immunology, the anamnestic response is the secondary immune reaction: on re-encountering an antigen it has met before, the immune system responds faster, with more antibody and higher affinity, because memory lymphocytes survive from the first exposure, so the body behaves as though it 'remembers' the antigen. Murphy and Weaver's Janeway's immunobiology treats this secondary response and the memory cells behind it. The referent is the heightened secondary response to a familiar antigen, a construct distinct from a theory of learning or a clinical history, sharing only the metaphor of recollection.[2]

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The magnitude and speed of the secondary response versus the first

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Tracked by the rise in antibody titer, affinity, and response speed on re-exposure