Writer's block. I was going to write in this blog every day, but this is more difficult than I thought it would be.

I was thinking about Meno, and the notion that learning is really recollection. That's my understanding of what the dialog says, anyway. I was thinking of how this might apply to an ordinary problem, such as ordering the following list:

x, f, i, g, m, h, z, t

If you're asked to arrange the elements in order, I suppose the only thing that's really happening is that you remember that f is before g, g is before h, etc.

Consider a list of numbers:

4, 6, 2, 5, 9, 3

As I'm ordering the list, do I understand that 2 is less than 3, or do I simply remember to place 2 before 3, because I've seen that ordering so many times, and it's merely something I remember, like a habit?