Can human knowledge allow humans to escape from Plato's Cave?

He wasn't trying to help them "escape". He was trying to teach them what his Forms were.

"This is important to understand:

"1 Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.

"2 The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this." http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/32%E2%80%A6

So you first have to understand Plato's Forms. The Forms were Plato's method of solving the Problem of Universals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_%E2%80%A6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_re%E2%80%A6

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/p%E2%80%A6

Note @ Narathzul: You wrote: "How does the guy who arrives in the real world know he's arrived in the real world and not just an another "cave" that he could escape from?" That is a problem only for the subjectivist; yet it was not the focus nor the meaning of the Allegory.

And when I said he was not trying to help them "escape", I meant both from the Allegory, and from any "cave" perceived by the modern reader. He was, as the link indicates, trying to teach his fellow Greeks what his Forms were about--that somewhere else there are things which are not the particulars perceived by the prisoners in the cave, but which are universals about which they have never glimpsed.

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Nope, fact is we cannot escape from the fact that all our knowledge is tentative and dependent on sensory experience which may not accurately reflect reality.

How does the guy who arrives in the real world know he's arrived in the real world and not just an another "cave" that he could escape from? He cannot.

Yes and No. We have already enough knowledge that is far removed from our senses. But we will always be slave to our sense. And nothing wrong with it, we are animals and we must never forget that.

of course. if they were stuck in there for thousands of years they would eventually create robots which could explore outside the cave and bring back pictures.