In The Republic, NAME_1 presents a fable in which humanity is likened to prisoners chained in a cave. All they can see is the wall in front of them, and thus their only experience of objects is the shadows cast on the wall by a fire. According to NAME_1, this is analogous to our ignorance of ultimate reality, which consists of idealized and unchangeable Forms.

Turn the facts in the above paragraph into anki cards Provide your response in exactly 4 paragraphs (separated nearby paragraphs with 3 aterisk symbols ***).
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