- Plato suggests that the prisoners would begin a ‘game’ of guessing which shadow would appear next.
- If one of the prisoners were to correctly guess, the other would praise him as clever and say that he was a master of nature.
Note
The Game represents how people believe that one person can be a ‘master’ when they have knowledge of the empirical world. Plato demonstrates that this master does not actually know any truth, and suggests that it is ridiculous to admire someone like this.