I. The theory of recollection -- 1. Socratic doctrine in the early dialogues -- 2. The Meno -- 3. The Phaedo -- II. The criticism of perception -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Symposium -- 3. The Republic -- 4. The Cratylus -- 5. The Theaetetus -- III. Knowledge and belief -- 1. Recollection and the new method of dialectic -- 2. The evaluation of perception in Plato's later theory -- 3. Knowledge and belief in the Timaeus -- 4. The Sophist's account of statement and belief -- IV. Mathematical knowledge -- 1. Mathematics in the natural sciences -- 2. Mathematics and the forms -- 3. The objects of mathematical knowledge -- 4. Conclusion